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Fugitives Southern poets The Fugitive literary magazine published 1922- 1925 formal poetry, concrete imagery rural Southern experience wanted to prove that the South could produce

Fugitives Southern poets The Fugitive literary magazine published 1922-1925 formal poetry, concrete imagery rural Southern experience wanted to prove that

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Fugitives• Southern poets• The Fugitive literary magazine

published 1922-1925• formal poetry, concrete imagery• rural Southern experience• wanted to prove that the South

could produce intellectual art• later called the “Southern Agrarians”

Allen Tate, Merrill Moore, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson

May 4, 1956

30-minute

video on The

Fugitive Poets

About 1915 , a group of teachers and students from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee started meeting to discuss literature. They became known as the “Fugitives.”

Allen Tate(1899-1979)• Born & raised in

Kentucky• Editor of The Fugitive• Published several

collections of poetry

John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

• Was one of the original members of The Fugitives

• Entered Vanderbilt University at age 15

• Taught 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)

Robert Penn Warren(1905-1989)

• Poet• Born in Kentucky • Entered Vanderbilt Univ. 1921• University teacher• Won three Pulitzer Prizes• United States Poet Laureate

(1986-1987)• Wrote about Southern

settings, politics and morals

Merrill Moore (1903-1957)• From Tennessee• M.D. from Vanderbilt 1928• Famous for poetry, but a

good psychiatrist, too• Wrote thousands of

sonnets• Bronze star & commenda-

tion medal in WW2• Friends with Poets Robert

Frost and Robert Lowell

Donald Grady Davidson (1893-1968)• From Tennessee• Vanderbilt University graduate• Vanderbilt University English professor

1920-1968• Co-editor and co-founder of The

Fugitive magazine

Edited this book,

published in 1924