The Unregenerate South · the Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson

A compelling examination of Agrarian thinking in southern historyJohn Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson, three principal figures in the Southern Agrarian movement of the 1930s, envisioned the South as a redemptive community that would save humanity from the worst evils of the modern world. Each agreed that to defend the South's traditions and history would be a difficult undertaking, for most Americans dismissed the South as a bastion of poverty and a citadel of reaction. Mark G. Malvasi asserts, however, that these men differed markedly in their way of defining the nature and meaning of southern history through literature, society, religion, and race.