On banishing nonsense.--The background of southern thought.--Southern poetic theory.--Southern poetry.--A note on southern literature.--Six southern novels.--Urban influences on ante-bellum writers.--Legarʹe and Grayson: types of classical influences on ante-bellum critics.--Southern towns and cities.--Frances Wright at Nashoba.--Sut Lovingood.--Richard Malcolm Johnston.--Mark Twain as southerner.--Sawney Webb: Tennessee's schoolmaster.--Walter Hines Page and the South.--Eugene O'Neill's symbolism.--Portrait of Levangro: a biographical essay on George Borrow