The southern Agrarians were a group of twelve young men who joined,
from 1929 to 1937, in a fascinating intellectual and political
movement. Prominent among them were Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate,
John Crowe Ransom, and Donald Davidson. In the midst of the
depression, these gifted writers tried, as did so many other
intellectuals, to plot the best cultural and economic choices open
to southerners and Americans as a whole. That they failed to gain
most of their goals does not diminish the significance of their
crusade, or the enduring values that they espoused.
Interweaving group biography and intellectual history, Conkin
traces how these young intellectuals came to write their classic
manifesto, "I'll Take My Stand, " relates their political advocacy
to the earlier Fugitive movement in poetry, and follows their
careers after the Agrarian crusade fell apart. More than any other
historian or critic, Conkin takes seriously the economic and
political beliefs of these southern writers.
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