Fugitives (poets)

The Fugitives also known as The Fugitive Poets, is the name given to a group of poets and literary scholars at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, who published a literary magazine from 1922 to 1925 called The Fugitive.^[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]: 13 With it, a major period of modern Southern literature began.^[1]: 13 Their poetry was formal and featured traditional prosody and concrete imagery often from experiences of the rural south.^[2] The group has some overlap with two later movements: Southern Agrarians and New Criticism.^[1]: 11