1. Fugitives Southern poets
The Fugitive literary magazine published
formal poetry, concrete imagery
rural Southern experience
wanted to prove that the South could produce intellectual art
later called the “Southern Agrarians”

2. 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.”

3. Allen Tate (1899-1979) Born & raised in Kentucky
Editor of The Fugitive
Published several collections of poetry

4. From “Chills and Fever” (1924)
John Crowe Ransom
( )
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.

5. Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) Poet Born in Kentucky
Entered Vanderbilt Univ. 1921
University teacher
Won three Pulitzer Prizes
United States Poet Laureate ( )
Wrote about Southern settings, politics and morals

7. Merrill Moore ( )
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

8. Edited this book, published in 1924
Donald Grady Davidson ( )
From Tennessee
Vanderbilt University graduate
Vanderbilt University English professor
Co-editor and co-founder of The Fugitive magazine
Edited this book, published in 1924