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Vanderbilt and Beyond: The Legacy of the Fugitives by M. Thomas Inge The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History. By Charlotte H. Beck. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2001. xii + 303 pp. $49.95. World of Relations: The Achievement of Peter Taylor. By David N. Robinson. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1998. xii + 209 pp. $29.95. That the Fugitive poets at Vanderbilt University had a deep and profound influence on American letters is amply and authoritatively demonstrated by Charlotte H. Beck in her fine study The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History, a book on which she faithfully and meticulously worked for more than two decades. As she tells the story, what began as a local and regional movement in Nashville with the publication of The Fugitive poetry magazine in 1922 soon became a national phenomenon, and its primary instruments were the university classroom and the subsidized academic literary quarterly. (Some day a history will be written about the importance of the academy in American literature as a central patron and secure abode for the majority of our poets and creative writers.) The primary figure and teacher was John Crowe Ransom, who came to Vanderbilt as an instructor in English
The Southern Literary Journal – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Dec 1, 2001
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