The burden of time: the fugitives and agrarians; the Nashville groups of the 1920's and 1930's, and the writing of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren
The fugitives: beginnings -- The fugitive group: 1922-1928 -- Toward agrarianism -- Agrarianism and after -- John Crowe Ransom's poetry -- Ransom's theories of poetry and criticism -- Allen Tate's prose -- Allen Tate's poetry -- Robert Penn Warren: the long apprenticeship -- Robert Penn Warren: the achievement