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Donald Grady Davidson
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Donald Grady Davidson
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1.
Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance
by Mark Royden Winchell. 386 pgs.
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Where No Flag Flies
Contents
Preface
Part One: The Athens of the South (1893—1924)
1: Middle Tennessee
2: Twentieth Avenue
3: Over There
4: Robin Gallivant
5: Demon Brother
Part Two: Paradise Reclaimed (1924—1936)
6: Two Cheers for Modernism
7: Ubi Sunt
8: Angry as Wasp Music
9: Some Versions of Pastoral
10: The Long Campaign
Part Three: The Memory Keeper (1936—1950)
11: Agrarian Poetics
12: Taking Their Country Back
13: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
14: The Last Agrarian
15: A Tale of Two Rivers
Part Four: Mr. Davidson (1950—1968)
16: A Joyful Noise
17: Who Speaks for the White Man?
18: Where No Flag Flies
19: The Last Fugitive
20: Down This Long Street
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
2.
Donald Davidson
by M. Thomas Inge, Thomas Daniel Young. 173 pgs.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chronology
Chapter 1 The Man and the Land
Chapter 2 Journey to Parnassus
Chapter 3 "The Long Street"
Chapter 4 The Fierce Faith Undying
Chapter 5 The Poet as Prophet
Selected Bibliography
Index
3.
Where No Flag Flies: The Correspondence of Donald Davidson and John Gould Fletcher, in The Mississippi Quarterly
by Mark Royden Winchell. multiple pgs.
4.
The Spyglass, Views and Reviews, 1924-1930: Selected and Edited by John Tyree Fain
by Donald Davidson. 268 pgs.
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Title Page
Introduction
Contents
About Donald Davidson
Acknowledgments
Provincialism
Southern Fiction
Spyglass September 5, 1926
Spyglass April 3, 1927
Spyglass August 14, 1927
Critic's Almanac May 13, 1928
Critic's Almanac February 3, 1929
Farewell--And Hail! Critic's Almanac February 16, 1930
Critic's Almanac March 16, 1930
Ellen Glasgow--Social Historian Critic's Almanac April 13, 1930
Critic's Almanac April 20, 1930
Other American Fiction
Sherwood Anderson's a Story Teller's Story, Extra Review January 18, 1925
Spyglass March 15, 1925
Spyglass January 31, 1926
Tragedy of Limitation: Tarkington and Hemingway Spyglass January 22, 1928
Irony: Edith Wharton, Louis Bromfield Critic's Almanac September 23, 1928
Perfect Behavior Critic's Almanac November 3, 1929
Painful Literature Critic's Almanac December 8, 1929
Poetry
Spyglass March 7, 1926
Spyglass January 23, 1927
Hart Crane's White Buildings Extra Review April 3, 1927
The Gumdrop School Spyglass July 31, 1927
Josephine Pinckney, Sea-Drinking Cities Extra Review January 15, 1928
Critic's Almanac December 2, 1928
Critic's Almanac April 28, 1929
Critics And Commentators
Extra Review December 12, 1926
Two Professors Spyglass June 19, 1927
Society and the Arts
Notes: Sex in Literature, Poetry Magazines Spyglass March 28, 1926
Notes: Zona Gale, Censorship Spyglass February 6, 1927
Old Songs Critic's Almanac May 27, 1928
Crippled Caravan Critic's Almanac November 11, 1928
Book Clubs Critic's Almanac November 18, 1928
The Amateur Spirit in Music Critic's Almanac January 27, 1929
Prose Style, Blues Magazine Critic's Almanac March 3, 1929
Book-Of-The-Month Club Critic's Almanac April 28, 1929
Antiques, Handcraft Critic's Almanac May 18, 1930
The Book Business Critic's Almanac August 3, 1930
Sassoon's War Critic's Almanac October 12, 1930
Backgrounds Of Agrarianism
Stonewall Jackson's Way Critic's Almanac April 29, 1928
The Spotlight on the South Critic's Almanac June 2, 1929
Phillip's Life and Labor in the Old South Critic's Almanac June 9, 1929
Bower's the Tragic Era Extra Review September 15, 1929
What Does History Mean? Critic's Almanac October 20, 1929
The World as Ford Factory Critic's Almanac November 9, 1930
Criticism Outside New York
Appendix
Index
5.
The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 (Chap. 7 "The Agrarian Response to Modernism")
by Daniel Joseph Singal. 456 pgs.
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Daniel Joseph Singal examines this struggle between the characteristic culture of twentieth-century America and the South's tenacious blend of Victorianism and the Cavalier myth.
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Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Cavalier Myth and Victorian Culture: the Nineteenth - Century Background
Part One Three Southern Post-Victorians
Chapter 2 Ulrich B. Phillips: the Old South as the New
Chapter 3 Broadus Mitchell: the New South as the Old
Chapter 4 Ellen Glasgow and the Tidewater Renaissance
Part Two Modernists by the Skin of Their Teeth
Chapter 5 Howard W. Odum and Social Science in the South
Chapter 6 William Faulkner and the Discovery of Southern Evil
Chapter 7 the Agrarian Response to Modernism
Part Three the Modernist Generation Arrives
Chapter 9 the Critical Temperament Unleashed: William Terry Couch and Southern Publishing
Chapter 10 the New Sociology and the South
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
6.
Fifty Southern Writers after 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook ("Donald Grady Davidson (1893-1968)" begins on p. 121)
by Robert Bain, Joseph M. Flora. 630 pgs.
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..."The scholarship is meticulous and the essays are lucid and perceptive..." Library Journal
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Title Page
Copyright Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
James Agee (1909-1955)
Bibliography
A. R. Ammons (1926- )
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John Barth (1930- )
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Hamilton Basso (1904-1964)
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Doris Betts (1932- )
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John Peale Bishop (1892-1944)
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James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)
Erskine Caldwell (1903- )
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Truman Capote (1924-1984)
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Donald Grady Davidson (1893-1968)
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James Dickey (1923- )
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Ralph Ellison (1914- )
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William Faulkner (1897-1962)
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John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950)
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Shelby Foote (1916- )
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Ernest J. Gaines (1933- )
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Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)
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Caroline Gordon (1895-1981)
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Shirley Ann Grau (1929- )
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Paul Green (1894-1981)
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Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
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Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
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Andrew Lytle (1902- )
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Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
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H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)
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Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
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Walker Percy (1916- )
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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
William Sydney Porter [O. Henry] (1862-1910)
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Reynolds Price (1933- )
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John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)
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Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)
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Elizabeth Spencer (1921- )
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Jesse Stuart (1906-1984)
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William Styron (1925- )
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Allen Tate (1899-1979)
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Peter Taylor (1917- )
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Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
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Anne Tyler (1941- )
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Robert Penn Warren (1905- )
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Eudora Welty (1909- )
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Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams (1911-1983)
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Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
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Richard Wright (1908-1960)
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Stark Young (1881-1963)
Index
Contributors
7.
Inventing Southern Literature
by Michael Kreyling. 206 pgs.
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A skeptical view of the way the mainstream has defined & studied southern literature.
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Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I: The South of the Agrarians
II: Richard Weaver and the Outline of Southern Literary History
III: Race, Literature, and History in the Work of Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
IV: Southern Literature Anthologies and the Invention of the South
V: African-American Writers and Southern Literary History
VI: Southern Women Writers and the Quentin Thesis
VII: Southern Writing Under the Influence of William Faulkner
VIII: Parody and Post-Southernness
IX: The Invention of the South and the Culture War
Works Cited
Index
8.
The Lyric South: An Anthology of Recent Poetry from the South (Includes 'Ecclesiasticus', 'Afternoon Call', 'An Outland Piper', 'Avalon', and 'The Wolf' by Donald Davidson)
by Addison Hibbard. 286 pgs.
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Title Page
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Contents
Local Color and Legendary
The Priest and the Pirate: A Ballad of Theodosia Burr
Funeral at the High Tide
Palmetto Town
A Charleston Garden
On Clingman Dome
Sal's Gap
Twilight
A Yoke of Steers
Dusk
Evening in the Great Smokies
I Stumbled Upon Happiness
Song from the Traffic
The Yorktown Road
Stella Maris
In the Mountains
In the Mountains
Home
Sea-Drinking Cities
The Delta Autumn
Street Cries
The Alligator
Escape at Moonrise
Tidewater
Peachtree
A Chesapeake Marsh
Twon Winds
Sonnets of an Old Town
After All Splendors
Nature and the Seasons
To a Texas Primrose
Grey
Tulips
April
The Secret
Dawn
A Sea Song
I Did Not Heed That Spring Was Here
In April
A Page's Road Song: (13th Century)
Sweet Weather
The Pine Against the Blue
People and Portents
Beyond Debate
The Housewife: Winter Afternoon
Black Christmas
He Blockader
The Mountain Woman
Your Gifts
A Conversational Neighbor
Hepzibah of the Cent Shop
The Old Name
Umbrella Jim
The Misses Poar Drive to Church
Judith of Bethulia
Under the Locusts
Poe's Mother
A Self-Server
Daniel Boone's Last Look Westward
Lee
The Negro
Gamesters All
Savannah River
Brother
Poems of Childhood
At the Water
Milking Time
Mr. Wells
The Searching Spirit
Pronouns
Silver Poplars
Over Night, a Rose
There May, of Course, Be Mice
Faith
Noonday Grace
Epilogue
Our Two Worthies
Brother Gian: (of the Benedictines at Monte Cassino, Circa 1080)
Acolyte
The Classics and Travel
A Farmer's Prayer: In the Time of Horace--Book Iii, Ode XVIII
Sappho in Levkas
Love, Weeping, Laid This Song: (on a Copy of the Iliad Found with the Mummy of A Young Girl.)
From a Felucca
Again, Sappho
Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting
Willow Whistles
Alone in Spring
Heartbreak
Song
The Unloved to His Beloved
Morning
The Lover
The Equilibrists
April Weather
If I Come Back
Cool-Enfolding Death
The Little House
Poppy Fields
Dead Boy
Emily Hardcastle, Spinster
Old Saul
The Young Mother
Requiem
The Dead
The Fever Called 'Living'
The World at the Bottom of the Lake
The Upward Pass: "Nel Mezzo Del Cammin Di Nostra Vita"
I Grieve for Beauty Wasted
Songs
Lute and Furrow
Avalon
The Wolf
The Faithful Servant
In His Will
Pity the Great
The Poet
As I Lay Dreaming Abed
I Shall Not Make a Garment of My Grief
Salvage
Sand Dunes and Sea
Tears
Dusk from a Train Window
Vanity Fair
Renunciation
Qui Vive!
Epitaph of a Poet
Appendices
Notes on the Poets
Index of Poets
Index of Poems
Index of First Lines
9.
Southern Renascence the Literature of the Modern South ("Donald Davidson as Fugitive-Agrarian" begins on p. 392)
by Robert D. Jacobs, Louis D. Rubin Jr. 444 pgs.
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Southern Renascence the Literature of the Modern South
Preface