Twelve Southerners - I ' Ll Take My Stand - FIRST ED. SIGNED By John Crowe Ransom
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Twelve Southerners - I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First Edition (stated). SIGNED by contributor and unofficial Southern Agrarian leader John Crowe Ransom with brief inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo (8.25" x 5.75"); xx, [2], 359p. Green publisher's cloth with gilt bands and lettering. Boards edgeworn and soiled with heavy fading/smudging to spine and along edges. Hinges reinforced. Front endpaper chipped al...ong top edge with some pencil erasures. Sparse, light pencil marginalia and underlining throughout, with some pencil notations on rear pastedown. Binding is sound. Not an ex-library copy.
Essay anthology acting as a sort of manifesto for the Southern Agrarian / Fugitive writers of the Southern Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, many of whom met and were active at Vanderbilt University and involved in the publication of the small literary magazine The Fugitive from 1922-25.
Contents include:
Introduction: A Statement of PrinciplesJohn Crowe Ransom - Reconstructed but UnregenerateDonald Davidson - A Mirror for ArtistsFrank Lawrence Owsley - The Irrepressible ConflictJohn Gould Fletcher - Education, Past and PresentLyle H. Lanier - A Critique of the Philosophy of ProgressAllen Tate - Remarks on the Southern ReligionHerman Clarence Nixon - Whither Southern EconomyAndrew Nelson Lytle - The Hind TitRobert Penn Warren - The Briar PatchJohn Donald Wade - The Life and Death of Cousin LuciusHenry Blue Kline - William Remington: A Study in IndividualismStark Young - Not in Memorium, but in Defense
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First Edition (stated). SIGNED by contributor and unofficial Southern Agrarian leader John Crowe Ransom with brief inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo (8.25" x 5.75"); xx, [2], 359p. Green publisher's cloth with gilt bands and lettering. Boards edgeworn and soiled with heavy fading/smudging to spine and along edges. Hinges reinforced. Front endpaper chipped al...ong top edge with some pencil erasures. Sparse, light pencil marginalia and underlining throughout, with some pencil notations on rear pastedown. Binding is sound. Not an ex-library copy.
Essay anthology acting as a sort of manifesto for the Southern Agrarian / Fugitive writers of the Southern Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, many of whom met and were active at Vanderbilt University and involved in the publication of the small literary magazine The Fugitive from 1922-25.
Contents include:
Introduction: A Statement of PrinciplesJohn Crowe Ransom - Reconstructed but UnregenerateDonald Davidson - A Mirror for ArtistsFrank Lawrence Owsley - The Irrepressible ConflictJohn Gould Fletcher - Education, Past and PresentLyle H. Lanier - A Critique of the Philosophy of ProgressAllen Tate - Remarks on the Southern ReligionHerman Clarence Nixon - Whither Southern EconomyAndrew Nelson Lytle - The Hind TitRobert Penn Warren - The Briar PatchJohn Donald Wade - The Life and Death of Cousin LuciusHenry Blue Kline - William Remington: A Study in IndividualismStark Young - Not in Memorium, but in Defense
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