Upload
hillary-hodge
View
226
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
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