The Southern Agrarians: With a New Preface by the Author

by Paul K. Conkin

Book Overview

The southern Agrarians were a group of twelve young men who joined, from 1929 to 1937, in a fascinating intellectual and political movement. Prominent among them were Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and Donald Davidson. In the midst of the depression, these gifted writers tried, as did so many other intellectuals, to plot the best cultural and economic choices open to southerners and Americans as a whole. That they failed to gain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826513859
• ISBN13: 9780826513854
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.5"