Definitions for "FUGITIVES"
A group of sixteen poets and critics who met in Nashville in the early 1920's and published "The Fugitive" from 1922 - 1925. Most members were faculty or students at Vanderbilt, including America's first Poet Laureate, Robert Penn Warren.
Poets who collaborated in The Fugitive, a magazine published between 1922 and 1928 in Nashville, Tennessee. The collaborators, including such luminaries as John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and Allen Tate, rejected "northern" urban, commercial values, which they felt had taken over America, and called for a return to the land and to American traditions that could be found in the South.
The Fugitives were a group of poets and literary scholars who came together at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee around 1920. They published a small literary magazine called The Fugitive from 1922-1925 which showcased their works. Although its published life was brief, The Fugitive is considered to be one of the most influential publications in the history of American letters.