Waking Their Neighbors Up: The Nashville Agrarians RediscoveredStung by attacks upon the South following the celebrated Scopes "monkey trial" in the 1920s, some of the poets comprising the Fugitive group at Vanderbilt University notably John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren conceived the idea of a symposium that would argue for the worth of an ordered, traditional society as an alternative to what they perceived as the increasing materialism of their times. The Fugitives were