Donald Grady Davidson

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, …