Donald Grady Davidson & John Crowe Ransom - Pulaski, TN
Posted by: YoSam.
N 35° 11.969 W 087° 01.883
16S E 497143 N 3895165
Poets and founded a magazine which launched the Southern Literary Renaissance
Waymark Code: WMX57V
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 11/29/2017
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County of memorial: Giles County
Location of marker: N. 2nd St. & W. Madison St., courthouse lawn, Pulaski
Marker erected by: Tennessee Historical Commission
Memorial text:
DONALD GRADY DAVIDSON
(1893~1968
JOHN CROWE RANSOM
(1888~1974)
Giles County natives Donald G. Davidson and John C. Ransom were influential personages in American Literature. Professors at Vanderbilt University, they helped found
The Fugitive (1922-25) a magazine which launched the "Southern literary renaissance." They contributed to the essential Agrarian manifesto
I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (1930), essays critical of industry's dehumanizing effects on the South.