The Fugitive literary magazine published 19221925 formal poetry concrete imagery rural Southern experience wanted to prove that the South could produce intellectual art later called the Southern Agrarians ID: 1043058
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1. FugitivesSouthern poetsThe Fugitive literary magazine published 1922-1925formal poetry, concrete imageryrural Southern experiencewanted to prove that the South could produce intellectual artlater called the “Southern Agrarians”
2. Allen Tate, Merrill Moore, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson May 4, 195630-minute video on The Fugitive PoetsAbout 1915 , a group of teachers and students from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee started meeting to discuss literature. They became known as the “Fugitives.”
3. Allen Tate(1899-1979)Born & raised in KentuckyEditor of The FugitivePublished several collections of poetry
4. John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)Was one of the original members of The FugitivesEntered Vanderbilt University at age 15Taught at Vanderbilt University (Tennessee) and later Kenyon College (Ohio)Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree.Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills,The delight of her husbands, her aunts, an infant of three,And of medicos marveling sweetly on her ills. And weeping fast as she had breathJanet implored us, "Wake her from her sleep!"And would not be instructed in how deepWas the forgetful kingdom of death. From “Chills and Fever” (1924)From “Janet Waking” (1927)
5. Robert Penn Warren(1905-1989)PoetBorn in Kentucky Entered Vanderbilt Univ. 1921University teacherWon three Pulitzer PrizesUnited States Poet Laureate (1986-1987)Wrote about Southern settings, politics and morals
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7. Merrill Moore (1903-1957)From TennesseeM.D. from Vanderbilt 1928Famous for poetry, but a good psychiatrist, tooWrote thousands of sonnetsBronze star & commenda-tion medal in WW2Friends with Poets Robert Frost and Robert Lowell
8. Donald Grady Davidson (1893-1968)From TennesseeVanderbilt University graduateVanderbilt University English professor 1920-1968Co-editor and co-founder of The Fugitive magazineEdited this book, published in 1924