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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 ]
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.
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.
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It publishes a wide variety of fiction, poetry and discursive essays from both students and the wider community of Tennessee and the southern United States. Similar to The Pinch, “Grist” is an annual literary magazine, published each Spring by students in the creative writing program at the University of Tennessee.
The Southern Renaissance (also known as Southern Renascence) [1] was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Caroline Gordon, Margaret Mitchell, Katherine Anne Porter, Erskine Caldwell, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, Robert Penn Warren, and Zora Neale Hurston, among others.