The Wary Fugitives: Four Poets (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History (Paperback)) - Softcover

Rubin Jr., Louis D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080710454X ISBN 13: 9780807104545

Publisher: LSU Press, 1978

Synopsis

John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren―each began his career as one of the coterie of southern poets centered at Vanderbilt University who attracted national attention with their publication of The Fugitive magazine in the early 1920s and the celebrated essays in I’ll Take My Stand. Collectively known as the Fugitives (or Agrarians as they were later called) they became ardent and influential participants in the regionalist-proletarian literary controversies of the Depression decades.

Each of the four poets was personally concerned with the connection between their creative work and the social realities around them. In The Wary Fugitives Louis Rubin masterfully explores and illustrates the relationships between their poetry, novels, and literary criticism, and their work as social critics. He conducts, in the process, a revealing and provocative inquiry into the connection between American history and the twentieth-century South.

About this title

About the Author:

Louis D. Rubin, Jr. , the founder of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and a founding member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, taught English and creative writing for many years, mainly at Johns Hopkins University, Hollins College, and the University of North Carolina. (Annie Dillard, Kaye Gibbons, John Barth, and Lee Smith are just a few of his former students.) He has written or edited some forty-five books of his own, the most recent of which are The Edge of the Swamp, Small Craft Advisory, and The Mockingbird in the Gum Tree. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and in his spare time pursues his interests in painting, boating, military history, and baseball.

Review:

Surely the most important book of Rubin’s distinguished career . . . A significant book indeed. (Thomas Daniel Young)

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 080710454X
• ISBN 13: 9780807104545
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 404