FUGITIVE: A MOVEMENT

Abstract

The vanderbilt circle that eventually come to be known as the Fugitive group began to assemble off Campus for philosophical discussion shortly before America's entry into First World War. It was Hirsch;1 who first suggested that the group produce it own magazine. The first issue of which appeared in April 1922. They named it the Fugitive after one of Hirsch's poem, apparently without much forthought. Donald Davidson;2 then a senior at Vanderbilt, was an original participant in the discussion, and John Crowe Ransom;3 a fledgling instructor in the English Department, whose interest were primarily philosophical, joined soon after the group of establishment. All Undergraduate - Allen Tate;4 a junior, then Merrill Moore;5 in 1922 and Robert Penn Warren;6 in 1923, three new members joined as Fugitive. The interest of the group had begun to turn toward poetry