The Wary Fugitives: Four PoetsJohn Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren each began his career as one of the coterie of southern poets centered at Vanderbilt University who attracted national attention with their publication of The Fugitive magazine in the early 1920s and the celebrated essays in I'll Take My Stand. Collectively known as the Fugitives (or Agrarians as they were later called) they became ardent and influential participants in the