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”

30-minute video on The Fugitive Poets Allen Tate, Merrill Moore, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson May 4, 1956 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

From “Chills and Fever” (1924) 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) From “Chills and Fever” (1924) 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. From “Janet Waking” (1927) And weeping fast as she had breath Janet implored us, "Wake her from her sleep!" And would not be instructed in how deep Was the forgetful kingdom of death.

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

Edited this book, published in 1924 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