The Fugitive Poets Modern Southern Poetry

by Pratt, William

• ISBN13: 9781879941007
• ISBN10: 1879941007
• eBook ISBN(s): 9798216365259
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781331351368, 9781461632788
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-12-03
• Publisher: J.S. Sanders Books
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Summary

Anthology of the finest modern Southern poets, including Warren, Ransom, Tate, Davidson.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: In Pursuit of the Fugitives
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	p. 3
Dead Boy	p. 4
The Vanity of the Blue Girls	p. 5
The Vanity of the Bright Young Men	p. 6
Conrad in Twilight	p. 8
Necrological	p. 9
Janet Waking	p. 11
Piazza Piece	p. 12
Old Mansion	p. 13
Philomela	p. 15
Amphibious Crocodile	p. 17
Captain Carpenter	p. 20
The Equilibrists	p. 22
Painted Head	p. 24
Antique Harvesters	p. 26
An Intellectual's Funeral	p. 28
A Sonnet of the Yellow Leaf	p. 29
To a Park Swan	p. 30
Utterance	p. 31
Lines for a Tomb	p. 32
Redivivus	p. 33
Lee in the Mountains, 1865-1870	p. 34
Sequel of Appomattox	p. 38
Twilight on Union Street	p. 39
On a Replica of the Parthenon	p. 40
Randall, My Son	p. 41
Sanctuary	p. 42
Hermitage	p. 45
Lines Written for Allen Tate on His Sixtieth Anniversary	p. 48
Refugees	p. 50
He Who Loved Beauty	p. 51
Sonnet	p. 53
Death, My Companion	p. 54
A Hemlock at Sunset	p. 55
Icarus in November	p. 56
Quodlibet	p. 58
To Intellectual Detachment	p. 60
Non Omnis Moriar	p. 61
Death of Little Boys	p. 62
The Mediterranean	p. 63
Aeneas at Washington	p. 65
Ode to the Confederate Dead	p. 67
Mr. Pope	p. 70
Last Days of Alice	p. 71
Seasons of the Soul	p. 73
The Swimmers	p. 80
Cumae	p. 83
The Noise That Time Makes	p. 84
The Book of How	p. 85
Literature: The God, Its Ritual	p. 86
To a Tired Clerk	p. 87
The Watchers	p. 88
Half Said	p. 89
The Fugitives	p. 90
Dimensions	p. 91
Summary for Alastor	p. 93
Virgin of the Hills	p. 94
The Poet's Corner	p. 95
Starved	p. 96
The Only Daughter	p. 97
A Valentine	p. 98
The Last Frontier	p. 99
Stark Major	p. 101
Edward Graves	p. 103
To a Face in a Crowd	p. 104
Aubade for Hope	p. 106
Crime	p. 107
Original Sin: A Short Story	p. 109
Pursuit	p. 111
The Ballad of Billie Potts	p. 113
Bearded Oaks	p. 129
To a Little Girl, One Year Old, in a Ruined Fortress	p. 131
School Lesson Based on Word of Tragic Death of Entire Gillum Family	p. 139
Tell Me a Story (Part VII of Audubon: A Vision)	p. 141
Heart of Autumn	p. 142
A Selected Bibliography	p. 143
Acknowledgments	p. 155
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