The Fugitives were a group of poets and literary scholars who came together at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee around 1920. Vanderbilt University is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in Nashville, Tennessee, They published a small literary magazine called The Fugitive from 1922-1925 which showcased their works. Although its published life was brief, The Fugitive is considered to be one of the most influential publications in the history of American letters. The Fugitives made Vanderbilt a fountainhead of the New Criticism, the dominant mode of textual analysis in English during the first half of the twentieth century. New Criticism was a dominant trend in English and American Literary criticism of the mid twentieth century from the 1920s to the early 1960s Even apart from this, the group would be remarkable for the number of its members whose works would claim a permanent place in the literary canon. Robert Penn Warren (Boss Warren) the first and foremost author in the Agrarian movement wrote in the Briar Patch, a look at the life of an exploited black in urban America.
Among the most notable Fugitives were John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Merrill Moore, Donald Davidson, Randall Jarrell, and Robert Penn Warren. John Crowe Ransom ( April 30, 1888, Pulaski Tennessee - July 3, 1974, Gambier Ohio) was an American Poet John Orley Allen Tate ( November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979) was an American Poet, essayist and social commentator and Merrill Moore (1903 &ndash 1957 was an American MD psychiatrist and poet Donald Grady Davidson ( August 8, 1893, Campbellsville in Giles County Tennessee - April 25, 1968, Nashville Tennessee Randall Jarrell ( May 06, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was a United States Poet, Novelist, Critic Robert Penn Warren (April 24 1905 &ndash September 15 1989 was an American poet Novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. Less closely associated were the critic Cleanth Brooks and the poet Laura Riding. Cleanth Brooks ( October 16, 1906 - May 10, 1994) was an influential American literary critic and professor Laura (Riding Jackson ( January 16, 1901 – September 2, 1991) was an American Poet, Critic, Novelist
The Fugitives partly overlapped with a later group, also associated with Vanderbilt, called the Agrarians. The Southern Agrarians (also known as the Vanderbilt Agrarians or Nashville Agrarians) were a group of twelve American writers and poets with roots in the
External links
- Fugitive documentary
- Fugitive resource page
- Fugitives and Agrarians Brief Biographical Sketches from Vanderbilt University Archives
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