Fugitives (poets)

[1]: 13  The group, primarily driven by Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, and Allen Tate, formed a major school of twentieth century poetry in the United States.

[1]: 11 About 1920, a group consisting of some influential teachers of literature at Vanderbilt, a few townies, and some students began meeting on alternate Saturday nights at the home of James Marshall Frank and his brother-in-law Sidney Mttron Hirsch on Whitland Avenue in Nashville.

[3] According to author Louise Cowan, "...half-seriously Alec Stevenson suggested as a title "The Fugitive" after a poem of Hirsch's which had been read and discussed at an earlier meeting.

Among the most notable Fugitives were John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Merrill Moore, Donald Davidson, William Ridley Wills, and Robert Penn Warren.

[6] In "The Briar Patch", Robert Penn Warren provided a look at the life of an exploited black person in urban America.

[1]: 11 The first comprehensive collection of the Fugitives' poetry was published by William C. Pratt, Professor of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.