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Donald Grady Davidson (August 8, 1893 – April 25, 1968) was an American poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author. An English professor at Vanderbilt University from 1920 to 1965, he was a founding member of the Fugitives and the overlapping group Southern Agrarians, two literary groups based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Donald Davidson (born Aug. 8, 1893, Campbellsville, Tenn., U.S.—died April 25, 1968, Nashville, Tenn.) was an American poet, essayist, and teacher who warned against technology and idealized the agrarian, pre-Civil War American South.
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Oct 8, 2014 · Southern liberals consciously discredited the old agrarian tradition. From Davidson’s perspective, they complained that southern life consisted of little more than lynchings, chain gangs, the Ku Klux Klan, hookworm, pellagra, poor whites, and a few aging patricians who did everything in their power to make the blacks miserable.
In our age of urban sprawl and rampant materialism, powered by superficial notions wealth and progress, few stop to smell the roses. Donald Davidson, Andrew Lytle, and their fellow Agrarians are well known to many for their polemical essays in favor of the Southern tradition.
Associated with the Fugitives and Southern Agrarians, poet Donald (Grady) Davidson was born in Tennessee and earned both a BA and an MA from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Davidson published five collections of poetry The Outland Piper (1924), The Tall Man (1927), Lee in the Mountains and…
Oct 8, 2017 · Poet, essayist, and social critic Donald Davidson played a major role in shaping southern Agrarianism and left a distinguished body of writings based on Tennessee and southern materials.
Donald Davidson, a southern poet and leader of the Southern Agrarians, a group of antimodernists who opposed industrial capitalism, conceived of social memory as a "folk-chain," which binds a people together.
