Fugitive and Agrarian Collection
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
- Davidson, Donald (Person)
Extent
1.68 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
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.
Physical Location
Special Collections & Archives
Creator
- Davidson, Donald (Person)
- Ransom, John Crowe (Person)
- Tate, Allen (John Orley Allen Tate) (Person)
- Warren, Robert Penn (Person)
- Curry, Walter Clyde (Person)
- Frank, James Marshall (Person)
- Hirsch, Sidney Mttron (Person)
- Moore, Merrill (Austin Merrill Moore) (Person)
- Riding, Laura (Person)
- Stevenson, Alec Brock (Person)
- Wills, Jesse Ely (Person)
- Elliott, William Yandell (Person)
- Frierson, William Coleman (Person)
- Johnson, Stanley (Person)
- Wills, William Ridley (Person)
- Starr, Alfred (Person)
- Fletcher, John Gould (Person)
- Kline, Henry Blue (Person)
- Lanier, Lyle Hicks (Person)
- Lytle, Andrew Nelson (Person)
- Owsley, Frank Lawrence (Person)
- Nixon, Herman Clarence (Person)
- Wade, John Donald (Person)
- Young, Stark (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Fugitive and Agrarian Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2009-2010
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Vanderbilt University Special Collections Repository
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
419 21st Avenue South
Nashville TN 37203 United States
specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu