The fable of the Agrarians and the failure of the American republic -- A fable of white and black : Jefferson, Madison, Tate -- History and the will of the artist : Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- War and memory : Quentin Compson's Civil War -- The tenses of history : Faulkner -- The poetry of criticism : Allen Tate -- The loneliness artist : Robert Penn Warren -- The last casualty of the Civil War : Arthur Crew Inman -- From Thoreau to Walker Percy : home by way of California ; or, the end of the Southern Renascence.
