The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry / Edition 1

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:	9781879941007
Publisher:	J.S. Sanders Books
Publication date:	12/03/1991
Series:	Southern Classics Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	207
Product dimensions:	6.46(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.65(d)

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