Materials on individual Fugitives and Agrarians
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 1.67 linear feet of materials on the Fugitive Poets and the Nashville Agrarians. Most of the materials have to do with the years in the 1920’s when the Fugitive poet group was formed and the resulting poems, manuscripts, and correspondence. In addition there are a few items, mostly articles, that concern the Agrarian group. The Collection contains many items of unique interest including poems that were read at the Fugitive meetings and correspondence that records the national and international interest in the Fugitive Magazine as it was published in the years 1922 - 1925.
The 16 Fugitive poets:
- Walter Clyde Curry
- Donald Davidson
- William Yandell Elliott
- James Marshall Frank
- William Coleman Frierson
- Sidney Mttron Hirsch
- Stanley Johnson
- Merrill Moore
- John Crowe Ransom
- Laura Riding
- Alfred Starr
- Alec Brock Stevenson
- Allen Tate
- Robert Penn Warren
- Jesse Ely Wills
- William Ridley Wills
The 12 Agrarians:
- Donald Davidson
- John Gould Fletcher
- Henry Blue Kline
- Lyle Hicks Lanier
- Andrew Nelson Lytle
- Herman Clarence Nixon
- Frank Lawrence Owsley
- John Crowe Ransom
- John Orly Allen Tate
- John Donald Wade
- Robert Penn Warren
- Stark Young
Some Fugitive and Agrarian Associates represented in this collection:
- Melvin Bradford
- Cleanth Brooks
- Brainard and Frances Cheney
- Randall Jarrell
- William Jay Smith
- Radcliffe Squires
- Randall Stewart
- Walter Sullivan
- Richard Weaver
- Thomas Daniel Young
Dates
- 1922 - 1979
Creator
- From the Collection: Davidson, Donald (Person)
- From the Collection: Ransom, John Crowe (Person)
- From the Collection: Tate, Allen (John Orley Allen Tate) (Person)
- From the Collection: Warren, Robert Penn (Person)
- From the Collection: Curry, Walter Clyde (Person)
- From the Collection: Frank, James Marshall (Person)
- From the Collection: Hirsch, Sidney Mttron (Person)
- From the Collection: Moore, Merrill (Austin Merrill Moore) (Person)
- From the Collection: Riding, Laura (Person)
- From the Collection: Stevenson, Alec Brock (Person)
- From the Collection: Wills, Jesse Ely (Person)
- From the Collection: Elliott, William Yandell (Person)
- From the Collection: Frierson, William Coleman (Person)
- From the Collection: Johnson, Stanley (Person)
- From the Collection: Wills, William Ridley (Person)
- From the Collection: Starr, Alfred (Person)
- From the Collection: Fletcher, John Gould (Person)
- From the Collection: Kline, Henry Blue (Person)
- From the Collection: Lanier, Lyle Hicks (Person)
- From the Collection: Lytle, Andrew Nelson (Person)
- From the Collection: Owsley, Frank Lawrence (Person)
- From the Collection: Nixon, Herman Clarence (Person)
- From the Collection: Wade, John Donald (Person)
- From the Collection: Young, Stark (Person)
Extent
From the Collection: 1.68 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Vanderbilt University Special Collections Repository
Special Collections Library
1101 19th Ave. S.
Nashville TN 37212 United States
specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu