The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry

by William Pratt

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461632788
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/03/1991
Series:	Southern Classics Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	207
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

William Pratt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in 1927, and earned a Bachelor's degree in English in 1949. At Vanderbilt University for graduate study, he received an M.A. in English in 1951, and a Ph.D. in 1957. Since 1968 he has been Professor of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, publishing essays, reviews and translations in books and periodicals. He has lectured widely on Modern Poetry in the United States and Europe.

Table 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