Donald Grady Davidson

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Donald Grady Davidson (August 8, 1893 – April 25, 1968) was a U.S. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author. An English professor at Vanderbilt University from 1920 to 1965, he was a founding member of the Fugitives and the overlapping group Southern Agrarians, two literary groups based in Nashville, Tennessee. **Early life** Davidson was born on August 8, 1893 in Campbellsville, Tennessee.[1] His father, William Bluford Davidson, was "a teacher and school administrator," and his mother, Elma Wells, was "a music and elocution teacher."[1] He had two brothers, John and William. Davidson received a classical education at Branham and Hughes Military Academy, a preparatory school in Spring Hill, Tennessee. He earned both his bachelor's (1917) and master's (1922) degrees at Vanderbilt University.[1] He served as a lieutenant in the United States Army during World War I.[2] **Career** Davidson was an English professor at Vanderbilt University from 1920 to 1965.[2] While at Vanderbilt, Davidson became associated with the Fugitives, who met to read and criticize each other's verse.[2] Later, they founded a review of the same name, which launched the literary careers of the poets and critics John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren,[2] the poet Laura Riding, and the poet and psychiatrist Merrill Moore. He enjoyed a national reputation as a poet, in part due to the inclusion of his dramatic monologue, "Lee in the Mountains",[2] in early editions of the influen

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