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The Southern Agrarians were twelve American Southerners who wrote an agrarian literary manifesto in 1930. They and their essay collection, I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition , contributed to the Southern Renaissance , the reinvigoration of Southern literature in the 1920s and 1930s. [ 1 ]
The Southern Renaissance was the first mainstream movement within Southern literature to address the criticisms of Southern cultural and intellectual life that had emerged both from within the Southern literary tradition and from outsiders, most notably the satirist H. L. Mencken. In the 1920s Mencken led the attack on the genteel tradition in ...
Today, Timrod's poetry is included in most of the historical anthologies of American poetry, and he is regarded as a significant—though secondary—figure in 19th-century American literature. [2] From Alfred, Lord Tennyson , allegedly, comes the appellation of Timrod as "the poet laureate of the South"--though that claim comes from a review ...
Southern Poetry from Holman Prison Death Row Inmate Darrell Grayson "Poets in Place," at Southern Spaces. "Society for the Study of Southern Literature". Organization founded in 1968 devoted to scholarship on writings and writers of the American South; History of Southern Literature online publishing.
In the short piece, Alex described how throughout life, we experience multiple ups and downs, but that our friends and family act like the safety bar that holds us in. The teen's poem then takes a ...
Sterling Allen Brown (May 1, 1901 – January 13, 1989) was an American professor, folklorist, poet, and literary critic.He chiefly studied black culture of the Southern United States and was a professor at Howard University for most of his career.
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence.
Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. [1] Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977).