Fifteen (15) Issues of THE FUGITIVE covering from 1923 to 1925, plus five (5) Books from Fugitive authors Ransom, Tate, Warren, and Moore. 1st Item: Fifteen (15) original broadside / pamphlet-form issues of THE FUGITIVE (1922-1925) literary magazine, beginning with the February / March issue of 1923 and continuing through the magazine's final issue in December 1925. Includes numerous poems in their original published form by John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Merrill Moore, and Robert Penn Warren. 2nd Item: POEMS FROM THE FUGITIVE: by Merrill Moore [1922-1926], published 1936. Stapled chapbook, 22pp. signed by the poet with inscription on the front cover. 3rd Item: MR POPE AND OTHER POEMS by Allen Tate. New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1928. First Edition, 8vo, 52pp. black boards with paper-applied cover and spine labels. Contains Tate's poem  'Ode to the Confederate Dead', tipped in as pgs. 33/34. 4th Item: CHILLS AND FEVER, Poems by John Crowe Ransom. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1924. First edition, 8vo, 94pp., cloth patterned boards, paper label to spine. 5th Item: SELECTED POEMS 1923-1975 by Robert Penn Warren, Franklin Library, 1981. Limited Edition, signed by Warren on 2nd front end paper under tissue guard. 8vo, 298 pp., gray leather boards with gilt stamped design, gilt ribbed spine, gilt page edges and satin ribbon marker.  6th Item: MEET ME IN THE GREEN GLEN by Robert Penn Warren, New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition, first printing with appropriate number line. 8vo, 376pp., beige cloth board with unclipped dust jacket.  Note: THE FUGITIVE was a literary magazine of poetry and criticism published at Vanderbilt University in Nashville from 1922 until 1925. Both faculty and students, including John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, among others, contributed to this publication. They were practitioners and defenders of formal techniques in poetry and were preoccupied with defending the traditional values of the agrarian South against the effects of urban industrialization.  Some of the Fugitive poets went on to form a second group, the Agrarians. (source: poets.org)

All of The Fugitive Issues very good overall condition, with penciled notations of Vol. front covers. Feb/Mar 1923 issue with detached cover. 2nd Item (Moore): slight discoloration front cover. 3rd Item (Mr. Pope): No dust jacket. 4th Item (Chills): No jacket, corners bumped, spine label fading. 5th Item (Poems): As New, unread. 6th Item (Glen): Jacket with losses to spine.

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