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The group was also remarkable for the number of its members whose works would claim a permanent place in the literary canon. Many were also influential teachers of literaturę. Among the most notable Fugitives were lohn Crowe Ransom. Allen Tatę. Merrill Moore. Donald Dayidson. William Ridley Wills. and Robert Penn Warren.^ In "The Briar Patch", Robert Penn Warren provided a look atthe life of an exploited black in urban America. Less closely associated were the critic Cleanth Brooks and the poet

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The Fugitives partly overlapped with a later isociated with Vanderbilt, called the Aararians. IOHN CROWE RANSOM was an American poet. essayist, magazine editor, and professor.

■    In his poems - combination of spiritual emptiness, grotesque

■    Death and rottenness, death of the bodies of beautiful young women

■    "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter"

■    "Blue Girls"

■    "The Equilibrists"

At Vanderbilt, Ransom was a founding member of the Fuaitiyes. a Southern literary group of 16 writers that functioned primarily as a kind of poetry workshop and included Donald Dayidson. Allen Tatę, and Robert Penn Warren. Under their influence, Ransom, whose first interest had been philosophy (specifically lohn Dewev and American praamatism) began writing poetry. His first volume of poems, Poems about Ood (1919), was praised by Robert Frost and Robert Graves. The Fugitive Group had a special interest in Modernist poetry and, under Ra nsom's editorship, started a short-lived but highly influential magazine, called The Fugitive, which published American