The mind of the South. The Southern temper / Robert B. Heilman ; Aspects of the Southern philosophy / Richard M. Weaver ; How many miles to Babylon / Andrew Nelson Lytle ; Poe and the agrarian critics / Robert D. Jacobs ; Allen Tate and the idea of culture / Wade Donahue ; The irony of Southern history / C. Vann Woodward -- The themes of Southern literature. Literature in the South : an exchange of views ; Southern novelists and the Civil War / Walter Sullivan ; Time and place in Southern fiction -- The novelists of the South. William Faulkner ; Robert Penn Warren ; Ellen Glasgow / John Edward Hardy ; James Branch Cabell / Edd Winfield Parks ; Theme and method in So red the rose / Donald Davidson ; Katherine Anne Porter and 'historic memory' / Ray B. West, Jr. ; Thomas Wolfe in time and place / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. ; The world of Eudora Welty / Robert Daniel ; Notes on Erskine Caldwell / Robert Hazel ; The conservatism of Caroline Gordon / Vivienne Koch -- The poetry of the South. Ceremonies of bravery : John Crowe Ransom / Isabel Gamble ; The serpent in the mulberry bush / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. ; The poetry of John Peale Bishop / Robert Wooster Stallman ; Donald Davidson as fugitive-agrarian / Richmond C. Beatty ; The achievement of Cleanth Brooks / John Edward Hardy ; Poet and psychiatrist : Merrill Moore / Henry W. Wells