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This is a remarkable collection of letters covering nearly four decades of correspondence between two of the South's foremost literary figures.

The series began in 1927 when Tate invited Lytle, who was then a student at the Yale School of Drama, to visit him at his apartment at 27 Bank Street in New York. Although they were acquaintances through their involvement with the Fugitives at Vanderbilt, they had never been close friends because Lytle's association with the group occurred after Tate had left Nashville. But after Lytle's visit with Tate and his wife, Caroline Gordon, both...

In this affectionate memoir one of the principal scholars of southern literature reflects of his lifelong study and offers his view of how the great writers of the South chanced to emerge during the worst of economic eras in that region.

Though he sees this phenomenon through the lens of his own experience in Mississippi, he brings into focus the questions so often asked by literary critics and historians: -Why did the American literary renaissance between 1920 and 1940 occur in the South?-

Young provides a fresh answer. His own background in a Mississippi hamlet, his growing...

The correspondence of John Peale Bishop and Allen Tate, extending from 1929 to the time of Bishop's death in 1944, embraces the period of the Great Depression and the coming of World War II. In that richly eventful period in the development of American literature, these two men of letters were continually exchanging news and comment about the activities, opinions, successes, and misadventures of poets, novelists, critics, publishers, and editors; about expatriate Americans in Europe and the quickening intellectual life of New York; and about the Agrarian movement and what was later to be...