Helmet of Fire: American Poetry in the 1920s 279- Eliot, Selected Prose,177.
- Eliot, For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order(Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday, 1929), vii. - They are John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Donald
Davidson, Merrill Moore, Laura Riding, Walter Clyde Curry, Jesse Wills, Alec B.
Stevenson, Sidney Hirsch, Stanley Johnson, William Yandell Elliott, William Frierson,
Ridley Wills, James Frank, and Alfred Starr. - Tate, Reason in Madness(New York: Putnam’s, 1941), ix; John Crowe Ranson,
“Classical and Romantic,” Saturday Review of Literature6 (14 Sept. 1929): 125–27. See also
Monroe Spears, Dionysius and the City(New York: Oxford University Press, 1970), 153–54. - Quoted in Louise Cowan, The Fugitive Group: A Literary History(Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1959), 48. - Jarrell, “John Ransom’s Poetry,” Sewanee Review56 (Summer 1948): 389.
- Spears, Dionysius and the City,154.
- Quoted in The Fugitive Poets,ed. William Pratt (New York: Dutton, 1965), 27.
- John M. Bradbury. The Fugitives: A Critical Account(Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1958), 21–24. - Tate, Reason in Madness,136.
- Williams, The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams(New York: Random 1951)
174 - Ibid., 145, 357.
- Ibid., 127.
- Williams, Imaginations,xii.
- Williams, I Wanted to Write a Poem,ed. Edith Heal (Boston: Beacon, 1958), 29.
- Miller, Poets of Reality(New York: Atheneum, 1969), 338.
- Williams, Imaginations,32–33.
- Williams, I Wanted to Write a Poem,36.
- Williams, Imaginations,89.
- Ibid., 95.
- Miller, Poets of Reality,287.
- Kenner, A Homemade World(New York: Knopf, 1975), 92.
- Williams, Imaginations,316.
- Moore, Complete Poems,88.
- Ibid., 46.
- Cummings, Poems 1923–1954,163.
- Blackmur, “Notes on E.E. Cummings’s Language” (1931), in Critical Essays on E.E.
Cummings,ed. Gary Rotella (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984), 107; John Dos Passos, The Best
Times(New York: New American Library, 1966), 83. - Frost, Selected Letters of Robert Frost,ed. Lawrence Thompson (New York: Holt,
1964), 265–66. - Frost, Selected Prose of Robert Frost,ed. Hyde Cox and E.C. Lathem (New York:
Collier, 1968), 13. - Frank Lentricchia, Robert Frost: Modern Poetics and the Landscape of the Self
(Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1975), 101–19; and Richard Poirier, Robert Frost:
The Work of Knowing(New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), 173–225. - Stevens, Opus Posthumous,ed. Samuel French Morse (New York: Random,
Vintage, 1982), 163.