The Fable of the Southern Writer

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint or adapt for republication the various essays in this volume. "Prologue: John Randolph and the Inwardness of History" is adapted from "The Inwardness of History," Virginia Quarterly Review , LVII (1981), 158-67. "The Fable of the Agrarians and the Failure of the American Republic " is adapted from "Southern Criticism and the Failure of the Republic," Mississippi Quarterly, XLIII (Fall, 1990), 465-73. "History and the Will of the Artist: Elizabeth Madox Roberts" first appeared as "The Sexuality of History" in the Southern Review, n.s., XX (1984), 785-802. I am grateful to the heirs of the estate of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, especially their representative, Ann Wood Roberts, for permission to quote various passages from the Elizabeth Madox Roberts papers deposited in the Library of Congress. "A Fable of White and Black:Jefferson, Madison, Tate" first appeared as "The Autobiographical Impulse in the South" in Home Ground: Southern Autobiography, ed. J. Bill Berry (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1991), 63-84. "War and Memory: Quentin Compson's Civil War" first appeared as "On William Faulkner's Absalom,Absalom!" in Classic Civil War Novels, ed. David Madden and Peggy Bach (Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1991), 151-73. "The Tenses of History: Faulkner" first appeared as "William Faulkner of Yoknapatawpha" in The American South: Portrait of a Culture, ed. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979), 227-44. 240 A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s "The Poetry of Criticism: Allen Tate," under the title "The Critics Who Made Us: Allen Tate"; "The Last Casualty of the Civil War: Arthur Crew Inman"; and "The Loneliness Artist: Robert Penn Warren " first appeared in the Sewanee Review, XCIV (1986), 471-85; XCV (1987), H9-62; XCIX (1991), 337~6i. Copyright 1986, 1987, 1991 by Lewis P. Simpson. Reprinted by permission of the editor. "From Thoreau to Walker Percy: Home by Way of California; or, The End of the Southern Renascence" first appeared as "Home by Way of California: The Southerner as the Last European" in Southern Literature in Transition: Heritage and Promise, ed. Philip Castille and William Osborne (Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University Press, 1983), 55-70. "Epilogue: A Personal Fable: Living with Indians" first appeared as "Living with Indians: Memoirs of a West Texas Southerner" in the Southern Review, n.s., XXVI (Fall, 1990), 741-45. Grateful acknowledgment on my part for various kinds of assistance should properly be made to many individuals. Since in the past, however, I have made many specific acknowledgments of the kind help I have received in connection with my projects, I trust that I may simply add to these a general recognition of all the invaluable assistance I have had in writing this book. Let me be content to mention directly only three people who have been of special help to me: the editor and author Charles East, William H. Slavick, the biographer of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and Thomas Underwood, the biographer of Allen Tate. ...