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The indispensable anthology of poetry from the Fugitive group, this collection chronicles the impact of literary modernism on these Southern poets as their region took a "backward glance" before coming to terms with the modern world. Southern Classics Series.
List of contents
Part 1 Preface xi Part 2 Introduction: In Pursuit of the Fugitives xiii Part 3 John Crow Ransom 3 Part 4 Stanley Johnson 28 Part 5 Donald Davidson 31 Part 6 Alec Brock Stevenson 51 Part 7 Sidney Mttron Hirsch 58 Part 8 Allen Tate 60 Part 9 Merrill Moore 83 Part 10 Jesse Wills 87 Part 11 Laura Riding 91 Part 12 Robert Graves 98 Part 13 John Gould Fletcher 99 Part 14 Hart Crane 101 Part 15 Andrew Nelson Lytle 103 Part 16 Robert Penn Warren 104 Part 17 A Selected Bibliography 143 Part 18 Acknowledgements 155
About the author
William Pratt is Professor of English Emeritus at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and author or editor of twenty books in the field of modern literature, including The Imagist Poem: Modern Poetry in Miniature; The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry in Perspective; Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry; and Ezra Pound and the Making of Modernism. From 1991-2005 he served as Secretary of the Ezra Pound International Conference, and in 2015-16 he was President of the Literary Club of Cincinnati, founded in 1849, the oldest literary club in the USA.
Summary
The indispensable anthology of poetry from the Fugitive group, this collection chronicles the impact of literary modernism on these Southern poets as their region took a “backward glance” before coming to terms with the modern world. Southern Classics Series.
