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Donald Davidson Papers
Appendix B: Literary Career-List of Newspaper Clippings 1924-1968

1924-1926:

March 8, 1924, The Literary Review: '"The Literary Lobby, " by Kenel M. Digby.
March 16, 1924, Record (Columbia, S.C.): "Rare Books of Poetry," a review of An Outland Piper.
March 16, 1924, Nashville Banner: An Outland Piper, a review.
March 23, 1924, The Lexington Herald, An Outland Piper, a review.
March 30, 1924, The New York Times Book Review: "Poets Start Piping in This 'Freshly Budded' Spring/ Six Volumes of Newly Published Verse," a review of An Outland Piper et al.
April, 1924, Reading Sample: "New Poems/'An Outland Piper' ".
April 1,1924 Sigma Upsilon New Letter, Vol. III: An Outland Piper.
May 1924, The Bookman: "Individual Verse," by David Morton
June 1924, Southern Magazine: "Dextrous Measures," An Outland Piper reviewed by Clyde Pettus.
June 1924, The Stratford Monthly: a comment on Davidson's poems.
Nov. 29,1924 Nashville Tennessean: "A Page About Books."
Dec. 21, 1924 , The Dallas Morning News : "An Outland Piper by Donald Davidson Has Lyrical Passion," by Hilton R. Greer.
Feb.1, 1925, The Dallas Morning News: "The World of Letters/Ransom Comment on Books and Bookmen."
March 1, 1925, Sigma Upsilon News Letter: "Donald Davidson."
April 12, 1925, The Dallas Morning News: "Thirty-two Poetry Magazines Have Appeared Since The First One in 1912/ Each Section of the Country Now has its Representative/The General Interest in Poetry is Preparing the Way for a Great Poet, Masefield Says," by Isaac C. Wade and Ellen Lovell.
July 4, 1926, New York World. "Advice to Shepherds."
Nov. 27, 1926, Chattanooga News: "Dinner in Honor Donald Davidson Event of Tonight."

1927:

April 21, 1927, Atlanta Georgian: "Writers Will Hear Vanderbilt Author."
Sept. 3, 1927, Journal (Milwaukee, Wis.): citation of The Tall Men.
Sept. 15, 1927, Nashville Tennessean: "Davidson's New Book Off Press."
Sept. 18, 1927 Nashville Banner: a citation of The Tall Men.
Sept. 24, 1927, Transcript (Boston, Mass.): a citation of The Tall Men.
Sept. 24, 1927, New York Publisher's Weekly: a citation of The Tall Men.
Sept. 25, 1927, New York Herald Tribune: a citation of The Tall Men et al.
Sept. 25, 1927, State (Columbia, S.C.): " The Tall Men by: Donald Davidson," review by J.V. N.
Sept. 25, 1927, Nashville Banner: "The Tall Men."
Sept. 25, 1927, News (Lynchburg, Va.): a citation of The Tall Men et al.
Sept. 26, 1927, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN ): "I Reckon So," by T. H. Alexander.
Oct. 1, 1927, Times (Raleigh, N. C.): "Tennesseans and Their Background in Lyric Poetry," by M. G. A.
Oct. 1, 1927, Saturday Review of Literature (N.Y, N. Y.): a citation of The Tall Man (sic).
Oct. 2, 1927, N. Y. Times: a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 2, 1927, Star (Indianapolis, Indiana ): "Many Books of Verse Appear in Fall Output of Publishers."
Oct. 2, 1927, Nashville Tennessean: "Donald Davidson's New Volume Offers Poetry Singularly Sustained/ Fosters Question of Attitude Becoming Men of South in Present Circumstances," review of The Tall Men by John Crowe Ransom
Oct.4, 1927, Nashville Tennessean: "The Tall Men,Donald Davidson's New Book Given Wide Praise/Publication Goes on Sale Here Today; Is Writer's Second Collection Of Poems."
Oct. 7, 1927, Union (New Haven, Connecticut) : review of Stygian Freight by Cale Young Rice, including a comment by Davidson.
Oct. 8, 1927, Lake County Times (Hammond, Indiana ): a citation of An Outland Piper.
Oct. 8, 1927,Lender (Manchester, N. H. ): a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 9, 1927, News (Dayton, Ohio) :a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 9, 1927, Sentinel (Knoxville, TN ): "The Tall Men is Epic of Tennessee," a review of The Tall Me by R.E. McCormick.
Oct. 9, 1927 Nashville Tennessean: "Communicatons," a letter by William Bandy.
Oct. 9, 1927,Commercial Appeal: a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 9, 1927, Times Picayune (New Orleans, La.): "Notable Books," a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 9, 1927, Commerical Appeal: a newspaper illustration entitled, "The Tall Men/Portrait of a Tennessean."
Oct. 10, 1927, Union (Manchester, N. H. ): a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 10, 1927, Democrat (Johnstown, PA) : a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 15, 1927, Transcript (Boston, Mass. ) : a citation of The Tall Men.
Oct. 16, 1927, Commercial Appeal ( Memphis, TN) : "Authors Will Meet at Tri-State Fair."
Oct. 23, 1927, Republican (Springfield, Mass.): a citation of The Tall Men
Oct. 23, 1927 Democratic Chronicle (Rochester, N. Y. ): "New Era in South "
Oct. 24, 1927, Evening Post (-----, S.C,): "To Address Poetry Society/ Donald Davidson Speaks on 'Poetry and Progress' Friday Night."
Oct. 25, 1927, News and Courier (Charleston, S.C. ): "Nashville Poet to Make Address/ Davidson to Be Speaker Before Poetry Society/ First Meeting Friday/ Begins Eighth Year of Existence with Full Membership."
Oct. 27,1927, ?: " Poetry Society Meets Friday/Donald Davidson , Nashville, will Deliver Address."
Oct. 27, 1927, Age Herald (Birmingham, Ala.): "I Reckon So," by T. H. Alexander
Oct.28, 1927, News and Courier (Charleston, S. C. ) "Tennessee Poet Speaks Tonight/ Donald Davidson Will Address First Meeting of Poetry Society."
Oct. 29, 1927, News and Courier ( Charleston, S.C.): "Poetry Society Hears Davidson/ Tennessee Poet Speaks, on 'Poetry and Progress'/Art Begins with Life/Poet Cannot Retire to Ivory Tower, Lecturer Declares."
Nov., 1927, Bookman (N.Y., N. Y. ): a comment on Davidson.
Nov. -Dec. 1927, Bozart (Atlanta, GA.): " Pasture on Parnassus," by Ernest Hartsock, A review of The Tall Men et al.
Nov. 5, 1927, Observer (Baltimore, Md.): "A Goodly Peper/This," a citation of Tall Men (sic.)
Nov. 6, 1927, Telegraph (Macon, GA.): a citation of The Tall Men.
Nov. 6, 1927, Spokesman Review (Spokane, Washington ): a citation of The Tall Men.
Nov. 11, 1927, Christian Advocate: "Two New Books of Distinction/A Son of the Pioneers," by G. B. Winton
Nov. 13, 1927, New York Times Book Review: "Five True Poets and a Satirist/ New Books by John Hall Wheelock, Alfred Noyes, Humbert Wolfe, Donald Davidson, Evan Morgan and Leonard Bacon," by Percy Hutchison.
Nov. 13, 1927, Call (Allentown, PA): a citation of The Tall Men.
Nov. 13, 1927. Times (Asheville, N. C.): " A Tennessee Poet," a review of The Tall Men by Willis Posey.
Nov. 20, 1927, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN): "Our Heritage/At Once a Tennessean's Pride and His Responsibility," a review of The Tall Men by John Crowe Ransom.
Nov. 26, 1927, Journal of Commerce (Chicago, Ill.) : a citation of The Tall Men
Nov. 27, 1927, Observer (Charlotte, N. C.): a citation of The Tall Men.
Nov. 27, 1927, Journal Courier (Louisville, KY): a citation of The Tall Men.
Nov. 30, 1927, Transcript (Boston, Mass.) : a citation of The Tall Men.
Dec. 3, 1927, Beacon News (Ill. ?): a citation of The Tall Men.
Dec. 10, 1927, Saturday Review of Literature ( N. Y., N. Y.): " Two Types of Poetry," a review by Stephen Vincent Benet of The Tall Men and Trinc by H. Phelps Putnam.
Dec. 14, 1927, Nashville Tennessean: "Benet Suggests The Tall Men As Material Worthy of Pulitzer Prize/ Noted Poet in Saturday Review Places Davidson In Class With Masters and Neihardt."
Dec. 24, 1927, Record (Columbia, S. C.): a citation of Davidson et al.
Dec. 28, 1927, Express (San Antonio, Texas ): "The Literary Lantern," a citation of The Tall Men.
Dec. 28, 1927, Desert News (Salt Lake City, Utah ): "Books and Authors," a citation of The Tall Men.

1928-1929:

Jan. 1928, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse: a review of The Tall Men by H. M.
Jan. 18, 1928, The Nation: " A Tennessee Epic," a review of The Tall Men by John Gould Fletcher.
Feb. 11, 1928, Saturday Review of Literature (N. Y., N. Y.): "Books of Special Interest/A Contrast in Poets, " Ballads of the singing Bowl by Marjorie Allen Seifert and The Close Chaplet by Laura Riding (Gottschalk), reviewed by William Rose Benet;
Mentions Davidson.
Feb. 12, 1928, Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.): "Poetry, Songs, and Ballads," a review of The Tall Men.
May 1928, Voices: The Pale Woman by Sara Bard Field and The Tall Men, reviewed by Oliver Jenkins.
May 26, 1928, Beacon-News, (Aurora, Ill.): a citation of Davidson
July 15, 1928, N.Y. Herald Tribune Books: "Turns With A Bookworm," a citation of Davidson by I.M. P.
Aug. 1928, Book Review Digest: a citation of Fugitives, an Anthology of Verse.
Nov. 26, 1928, Knoxville Journal: "To Welcome Donald Davidson."
Dec. 21, 1928, "Christmas in the Old South, " A Talk Made by Mr. Donald Davidson of Vanderbilt University on the Caldwell radio program Dec. 21, 1928, Caldwell and Co., Southern Securities, Nashville, TN
Sept. 22, 1929, Nashville Tennessean: an illustration from The Tree Named John, edited by Donald Davidson.
Sept. 22, 1929, Times (Toledo, Ohio): a citation of The Tall Men.

Missing Folders that have dates May 21, 1926 - March 1934-in Fugitives and Agrarians

1931-1939:

March 30, 1931, Yale News (New Haven, Conn.): "Donald Davidson, Southern Writer, Sees Rot in Yale Review Diagnosis of South's Progress."
April 17, 1931, Star (Clarksville, Tn.): " 'South is Advancing,' Donald Davidson Says, Answering Yale Publication Story."
May 11, 1931, News (Greensboro, N. C.): "The Reviewing Shambles of New York."
March 1934, Birmingham News (Ala.): "Liberalism As A Factor in the Southern Outlook."
May 11, 1934, The Sheffield Standard (Sheffield, Alabama) : "TVA Chiefs Ignor South, Davidson Claims/ Southerners Not Leaders in Exclusive Experiment/ Speaker Declares Area Not Inhabited by All Guinea Pigs."
July 7, 1935, Nashville Banner: " Donald Davidson Gives Illuminating Views in Essay."
April 16, 1937, The Birmingham News (Ala.): "The New South Talks a Rebellion."
April 23, 1937, News (Chattanooga, TN) : "Books."
May 16, 1937 Herald Tribune (N. Y.): "An Anthology."
June 27, 1937, Constitution (Atlanta, GA) : "A Shelf of Classics"
March 5, 1938, Republican (Springfield, Mass.) : "Southern Regionalism," by Edward N. Jenckes, review of I'll Take My Stand.
March 13, 1938, News and Observer (Raleigh , N. C. ): "Critical Regionalism," review of The Attack on Levia than by Allen Tate.
March 13, 1938, Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N. C.) : "Imperialism of Sections New Theory," Review of I'll Take My Stand.
March 19, 1938, Nashville Banner: "Searching Probes of Social Ills," The Attack on Leviathan, reviewed by Richmond Croom Beatty.
March 20, 1938, Morning Herald (Durham, N. C.): review of The Attack on Leviathan.
March 27, 1938, Journal (Knoxville, TN) : "Mr. Davidson Sees His Facts Logically."
March 27, 1938, Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala. ): "Regionalism vs. Sectionalism."
March 31, 1938, Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio): "Recent Arrivals at Cincinnati Book Stores," citation of The Attack on Leviathan.
April 3, 1938, The Nashville Tennessean: " A Conscientious Citizen Defines A Problem/Donald Davidson Argues Case of Regionalism/ Nation Entering Great Period of Debate."
April 3, 1938, News (Savannah, GA) : "Donald Davidson Scores Our National Uniformity/The Attack on Leviathan Again Carries Forward the Banner of Agrarianism," review of Attack on Leviathan, by J. P. Dyer.
April 15, 1938, Sun ( N. Y., N. Y.) : "Regionalism," review of The Attack on Leviathan, by Clayton Hoagland.
May 1, 1938, News (Birmingham, Ala.): " Mr. Davidson Asks If South Intends to Do Nothing," review of The Attack on Leviathan by William C. Frierson.
May 8, 1938, Daily Times (Chattanooga, TN ): "Davidson Expounds Philosophy of Agrarianism in Book of Essays on Regionalism and Nationalism in U. S," review of The Attack onLeviathan by Frank W. Prescott.
May 14, 1938, Telegraph (Macon, GA) : "Today's Book," review of The Attack on Leviathan by Eugene Anderson.
June 25, 1938, Press (Savannah, GA): no title, review of The Attack on Leviathan.
June 26, 1938, Observer (Charlotte, N. C.): no title, review of The Attack on Leviathan.
July 3, 1938, World News (Roanoke, VA) : "Books to Own," review of The Attack on Leviathan by Hon. Francis Pickens Miller.
July 6, 1938, Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Mass.): "Regionalism and the South," Review of The Attack on Leviathan by Horace Reynolds.
Oct. 1938, Book of the Month: no title, citation of Lee in the Mountains.
Oct. 16, 1938, Nashville Tennessean: "City's Doom Implicit in Davidson's Poems/Lee in the Mountains Has Brilliant Examples, New and Old, of Work of Vanderbilt Professor," review of Lee in the Mountains by John Tompson.
Oct. 16, 1938, Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) : "Poems Have Robust Style, " Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems, reviewed by Kathryn Ames.
Oct. 16, 1938, Journal (Knoxville, TN): "Poetry."
Oct. 19, 1938, Transcript (Boston, Mass. ): "A Nashville 'Fugitive' Talks for Robert E. Lee/Donald Davidson Shows Southern Poets are Still Not Reconciled," review by John Holmes.
Oct. 30, 1938, Journal (Atlanta, Georgia): Lee in the Mountains, review.
Oct. 30, 1938, Washington (D.C.) Star: Lee in the Mountains, review
Nov. 20, 1938, Chattanooga Times: " Donald Davidson's New Book of Poems Holds Particular Appeal for Tennesseans," review of Lee in the Mountains by Elizabeth C. Palmer.
Nov. 28, 1938, News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind. ): "Significant Verse," Lee in the Mountains And Other Poems, reviewed by Floyd Logan.
Nov. 1938, Richmond Times Dispatch (Richmond, Va.) : "Donald Davidson and Abbie Evans Praised," Lee in the Mountains and The Bright North by Evans, reviewed by Coleman Resenberger.
Dec. 3, 1938, The Philadelphia Inquirer: no title, comment on Lee in the Mountains.
Dec. 4, 1938, Constitution (Atlanta, Ga.): "Southern Poetry," comment on Lee in the Mountains.
Dec. 25, 1938, Telegraph, (Macon, Ga.): "Today's Book," review of Lee in the Mountains.
Jan. 1, 1939, The Commerical Appeal (Memphis, Tn): "New Book Affirms Genius of Southern Poet, Davidson," review of Lee in the Mountains by George Marion O'Donnell
Jan. 8, 1939, News (Birmingham, Ala.): "Donald Davidson is Author of Volume of Fine Poems," Review of Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems, by William C. Frierson.
Jan. 8, 1939, Herald Tribune (N. Y, N. Y. ): Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems, reviewed by John Berryman.
Jan. 14, 1939, Columbia Missourian: "Southern Poet/Donald Davidson's Verses of Civil War South Penetrating," review of Lee in the Mountains by Ward Allison Dorrance.
Feb. 5, 1939, Observer (Raleigh, N. C.): "Davidson's Poems."
Feb. 12, 1939, Republican (Springfield, Mass.): Lee in the Mountains, review by A.M. J.
March 10, 1939, Birmingham Age Herald: "This Morning," by John Temple Graves, II; comment on I'll Take My Stand and on Vanderbilt University and O.C. Carmichael.
March 19, 1939, New York Times Book Review: "About Old Ghosts and Tennessee Earth," review of Lee in the Mountains by Peter Monro Jack.
March 24, 1939, The Atlanta Journal: "Dixie Dominates Literary Field, Donald Davidson Says Here," by Adolph Rosenberg.
April 23, 1939, Daily Times (Chattanooga, TN): "Roaming/ A.A.U.W.-Thomas Wolfe-- Edgar Allan Poe."

1940-1944:

Aug. 11, 1940, Times (Chattanooga, TN): no title, comment on The Tennessee.
May 23, 1942, Waterways Journal (St. Louis, Mo.) : "News of River Books/ Nashville Author Now Writing a Tennessee River Book."
Nov. 17, 1944, Times (Los Angeles, Cal.): "Story of Tennessee River Recalls Era of Pioneering," review of The Tennessee, Vol 1, by P.J. S.
Nov. 26, 1944, News, (Newark, N.J.) : The Tennessee, comment

1946:

Sept. 26, 1946, Observer(Charlotte, N.C.): "The Southern Scene."
Sept. 29, 1946, Journal (Knoxville, TN): "Vanderbilt Member to Address Historical Society Friday."
Oct., 1946, Retail Bookseller: "The Tennessee, Vol. 1," citation.
Oct. 14, 1946, Herald (Boston, Mass.): no title; photograph of Theresa S. Davidson's Woodcut on the cover (bookjacket) of The Tennessee.
Oct. 20, 1946, Sun (Chicago, Ill.): "I've Been Reading," by John T. Frederick (The Old Tennessee River").
Oct. 23, 1946, Sun (N.Y., N. Y.) : "The Reviews: The Earlier History of the Tennessee: A Stirring Tale of the Scottish Border," by Clayton Hoagland.
Oct. 25, 1946, same as Oct. 23, plus a photograph of Donald Davidson.
Oct. 27, 1946, Journal (Milwaukee, Wis.): no title; review of The Tennessee, by E.C. Kiessling.
Oct. 27, 1946, Herald Tribune, (N. Y., N. Y.) : "The Tennessee Before TVA/Before Man Curbed the Wild River of the Cherokees," reviewed by Avery Craven.
Oct. 27, 1946, Tribune, (Chicago, Ill.): "Past Brought Near in Book of Tennessee," The Tennessee, Vol. I, reviewed by Walter Havinghurst.
Oct. 30, 1946, News (Chicago, Ill.): "The Tennessee Too Good to Cut," review of Vol.1.
Oct. 31, 1946, Waterways, "News of River Books," review of Vol.I, by D. T. W.
Oct.- Nov.1946, Vanderbilt Alumnus (Vol. 32, No. 1): " Donald Davidson/ The Tennessee, Before T.V.A.," reprint of review by Avery Craven in N.Y. Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, 10-27-46.
Nov. 3, 1946, The Knoxville News Sentinel: "Books Old and New," by Lucy Curtis Templeton Review of The Tennessee, Vol. I ).
Nov. 3, 1946, State (Columbia, S. C.): no title, review of The Tennessee by Alderman Duncan.
Nov. 9, 1946, Times ( Hartford, Ct.): "Dramatic History of River Pageant Vividedly Recalled."
Nov. 10, 1946, Gazette (Little Rock, Arkansas.) : "Books and History Recounted," by S.D. Dickinson.
Nov. 17, 1946, Times Star (Cincinnati, Ohio): no title: review of The Tennessee, Vol. I.
Nov. 17, 1946, Los Angeles Times: "Story of Tennessee River Recalls Era of Pioneering, Review of The Tennessee, Vol. I, by P. J. S.
Nov. 20, 1946, Christian Science Monitor: "River of the Cherokees," review of The Tennessee by Horace Reynolds.
Nov. 20, 1946, The Nashville Banner, "The Tennessee: The Old River: Frontier to Secession," Reviewed by Mary Stahlman Douglas.
Nov. 22, 1946, Contra Costa Labor Journal (Richmond, Cal.): no title; review of The Tennessee, The Old River. . .,by Al Sessions.
Nov. 23, 1946, Californian (Bakersfield, California): no title; review of The Tennessee, Vol. I.
Nov. 24, 1946, Picayune (New Orleans, La.): "Distinguished Addition."
Dec. 1946, Book of the Month Club: review of The Tennessee, Vol. I by George Genzmer.
Dec. 1946, Guidepost: review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1.
Dec. 1, 1946, Chicago Tribune: "History and Biography Are Good in 1946," by Avery Craven.
Dec. 1, 1946, Chronicle (Augusta, GA.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1, by Helen Colburn.
Dec. 1, 1946, Journal (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) review of The Tennessee, Vol.1.
Dec. 1, 1946, New York Herald Tribune: review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1.
Dec. 1, 1946, Chicago Tribune: review of The Tennessee
Dec. 2, 1946, Traveler (Boston, Mass.): "Work Tells Story of the Tennessee," review by F.L.B.
Dec. 8, 1946, New York Times: "History-Laden River," review of The Tennessee, Vol.1, by Harry Harrison Kroll.
Dec. 8, 1946, Journal (Providence, R. I.): "New Course of 'Rivers," review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1, by William E. Wilson.
Dec. 15, 1946, Mercury Herald (San Jose, Cal.): "River's Story," review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1., by Gladys Hoover.
Dec. 15, 1946, News (Charleston, S. C.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. By K. R.
Dec. 19, 1946, St. Louis Post-Dispatch : " Time and the Tennessee," review by Rufus Terral.
Dec. 22, 1946, Times-Herald (Dallas, Texas): "History of Two Rivers in One Bed," review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1, by W. Strickland.
Dec. 22, 1946, News (Charleston, S. C.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1., by K. R.

1947:

Jan. 1947, World in Books (Boston, Mass.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1 by A.H. Scouten.
Feb. 9, 1947, Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.): "Distinquised and Entertaining Story of Early Tennessee River is Grand," review of The Tennessee, Vol.1 by Ray Gould. March 1947, The Bookmark (Albany, N. Y.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. 1.
April 28, 1947, Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Mass. ): " A New and An Old River Flow as One."
July 31, 1947,Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Mass. ): "Flatboats on theTennessee."
Dec. 15, 1947, New York Times: citation of The Tennesse, Vol. II.

1948:

Jan. 1948, RetailBookseller (N.Y.,N. Y.):citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Jan. 18, 1948, Bulletin (Phila., Pa.): "On a River from Civil War to T.V.A.," reviewed by Leigh Mitchell Hodges.
Jan. 20, 1948, Times (Chattanooga, TN): " Agrarian Davidson Shies at Progress," review of The Tennessee, Vol.II, by James Livingood.
Jan. 22, 1948, Herald Tribune (N. Y., N. Y.): "Books Out Today."
Jan. 24, 1948, Publisher's Weekly (N. Y., N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Jan. 24, 1948, The New Yorker: review of The Tennessee.
Jan.25, 1948, Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio): "Tennessee Story Told in American Rivers Chronicles," review of The Tennessee, Vols. I and II by George J. Barmann.
Jan. 25, 1948, N. Y. Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review: "The Tennessee, Vol. II: The New River: Civil War to T. V. A.," reviewed by Gerald W. Johnson.
Jan. 26, 1948, New York Times: "From Civil War to TVA," review of The Tennessee, Vol. II,
By Horace Reynolds.
Jan. 26, 1948, Sun (N. Y., N. Y.): " A River's Stirring History in the Civil War and Later," review by Clayton Hoagland.
Jan. 29, 1948, Globe (Boston, Mass.): "The Tennessee."
Jan. 31, 1948, Army Times (Washington, D. C.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Jan. 31, 1948, Science News Letter (Washington, D. C.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Jan. 31, 1948, Journal American (N. Y., N. Y.): review of The Tennessee.
Jan. 31, 1948, Saturday Review of Literature (N. Y, N. Y.): "Liquid Mason-Dixon Line," review of The Tennessee, The New River: . . . by Willson Whitman.
Feb. 1948, Book of the Month Club News (N.Y., N. Y.): "How the Tennessee Has Influenced History."
Feb. 1, 1948, Booklist: review of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 1, 1948, World (Tulsa, Oklahoma): review of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 1, 1948, Journal (Milwaukee, WI): " The Tennessee: River of Strife and Kilowatts," reviewed by Harry Pease.
Feb. 1, 1948, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN): "The Tennessee: New River Traces Streams History From War of 1860's/Davidson's Vol II Lacks Rugged Drama of First Part," review by P.F.
Feb. 8, 1948, Star (Washington, D. C.): "In the TVA Valley," review of The Tennessee, Vol.II, by James Birchfield.
Feb. 8, 1948, Chicago Tribune: "Tennessee River Volume Develops Its Late History," reviewed by August Derleth.
Feb. 11, 1948, Mail (Anderson, S.C.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 12, 1948, Record (Columbia, S. C.): "A Turbulent River/ The Story of the Tennessee and Momentous Events Nearby," review by Alderman Duncan.
Feb. 12, 1948, Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio): "Walter Winchell," (column).
Feb. 14, 1948, Star (Kansas City, MO.): "Tennessee River Story," review by W.W.B.
Feb. 14, 1948, Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.): review of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 15, 1948, St. Louis Post Dispatch: "An Ingrown Southerner Looks at TVA,' review by Rufus Terral.
Feb. 15, 1948, Spokesman Review (Spokane, Washington): "Rivers of America"
Feb. 20, 1948, Republican (Pottsville, PA): review of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 21, 1948, Advertiser (Tiffin, Ohio): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 21, 1948, Intermountain (Elkins, W. Va.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 22, 1948, Observer and Budget (Troy, N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 22, 1948, News (Jackson, Miss.): "New Volume in River Series on Tennessee."
Feb. 22, 1948, Citizen (Asheville, N. C.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 24, 1948, Mail (Hagerstown, Md.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 24, 1948, Item (Portchester, N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 26, 1948, News (Beloit, Wisc.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 26, 1948, Journal (Pottsville, PA) : citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 27, 1948, Herald Enterprises (Bellflower, Cal. ): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 27, 1948, Nashville Banner: "South's Frontier Life," review of Everett Dick's The Dixie Frontier, By Mortimer Truil.
Feb. 27, 1948, Post (Vicksburg, Miss.) : "Vicksburesque"
Feb. 28, 1948, Independent (Richmond, Cal.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Feb. 29, 1948, Press Herald (Portland, Maine): " The Tennessee."
Feb. 29, 1948, News (Dallas, Texas): " Of Tennessee River and TVA," review by John H. Mcginnis.
March, 1948, Book Review Digest (N.Y., N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 1948, The Southern Packet (Asheville, N. C. ): "The Perennial Problem: The Club Program," by Agatha Boyd Adams.
March 1, 1948, Press-Gazette (Green Bay, Wis.): "Son of the Valley Writes History of Tennessee River."
March 2, 1948, Record (Meriden, Conn.): "Have you Read/ The Tennessee/ The Everglades"
March 2, 1948, Evening News (San Jose, Cal. ): "The Tennessee-Civil War to TVA."
March 2, 1948, News (San Francisco, Cal.): "The Tennessee-Civil War to TVA."
March 6, 1948, Gazette (Taunton, Mass. ): "The Tennessee-Civil War to TVA."
March 7, 1948, Press (Atlantic City, N. J. ): "The Tennessee-Civil War to TVA."
March 7, 1948, Times (Wichita Falls, Texas): "The Tennessee-Civil War to TVA."
March 8, 1948, News (North Kansas City, Mo.): "A New King is Crowned."
March 9, 1948, News Tribune (Fullerton, Cal.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 11, 1948, Eagle (Butler, Pa.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 12, 1948, Herald-Times (Manitowoc, Wisconsin): "The Tennessee . . . Donald Davidson."
March 13, 1948, Gazette (Gastonia, N. C.): "Book Reviews," of The Tennessee, Vol.II , by Ben and Estelle Atkins.
March 15, 1948, Register (Torrington, Conn.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 16, 1948, Messenger (St. Albans, Vt.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 18, 1948, Piedmont (Greenville, S. C.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 18, 1948, Journal (Lewiston, Maine): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 20, 1948, Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Cal. ): "Literary Works Lead Current Affairs Books."
March 21, 1948, Times Herald (Dallas, Texas): "Many Lakes and a River." By William H. Vann.
March 21, 1948, Observer (Charlotte, N. C.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
March 24, 1948, Journal (Meriden, Conn.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol.II.
April, 1948, Friends of American Writers News (Chicago, Illinois): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II..
April 1948, Southern Packet (Asheville, N. C.): "The Tennessee: Modern." Review by Paul M. Fink.
April 1948, Holiday: "The Tennessee: The New River-Civil War to TVA."
April 1, 1948, Gate City (Keokuki, Iowa): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
April 2, 1948, Telegram (Superior, Wisconsin): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
April 4, 1948, Times (Kingsport, Tn.): "This Week's Best Sellers in Kingsport."
April 5, 1948, Observer (Dunkirk, N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol II.
April 8, 1948, Journal (Antigo, Wisconsin): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
April 9, 1948, Sentinel Mist ( St. Helens, Oregon): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
April 10, 1948, Intelligencer-Journal (Lancaster, Pa.): "Southern River."
April 12, 1948, Nashville Banner: "Donald Davidson Receives Honorary Degree From W & L."
April 13, 1948, Nashville Tennessean: "Donald Davidson Given Honorary W & L Degree."
April 17, 1948, Nation ( N. Y., N. Y.): " The Giant-TVA," review of David Lilienthal, Public Servant in a Power Age, by Willson Whitman, and of The Tennessee, Vol. II, by Ernest Kirschten.
April 18, 1948, Sun & Times ( Chicago, Ill.): "How the TVA Gave River A 'New Look,'" by C. Herman Pritchett.
April 18, 1948, Herald (Albany, Ga.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
April 21, 1948, Record Herald (Richmond, Cal.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
April 22, 1948, Reporter (Two Rivers, Wisconsin: citation of The Tennessee, Vol II.
April 23, 1948, Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass. ): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
April 29, 1948, Gazette (Xenia, Ohio): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
May 2, 1948, Picayune (New Orleans, La.): "River of Destiny."
May 3, 1948, Senior Scholastic (N. Y., N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
May 8, 1948, America (N. Y,, N. Y.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
May 9, 1948, Gazette (Little Rock, Arkansas): "Down South."
May 9, 1948, Post (Boston, Mass. ): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
May 15, 1948, Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Mass.) : "Tennessee Valley: 3 Periods," The Tennessee, Vol. II., reviewed by R.M. H.
May 16, 1948, Chronicle ( Augusta, Ga.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
May 16, 1948, Journal (Providence, R. I.): " The Tennessee-Civil War to TVA," review by K. B. R.
July 1948, Current History: review of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
July 8, 1948, Union (Fort Atkinson, Wis.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II
July 11, 1948, Daily (Decatur, Ala.): "Books/The Tennessee/ By Donald Davidson."
Aug. 22, 1948, Courant (Hartford, Conn.): "River Victor in Two Wars," The Tennessee, Vol. II, reviewed by Maxine Tull Boatner.
Sept., 1948, Southern Packet (Asheville, N. C.): "Poetry."
Sept. 16, 1948, Townsman (Andover, Mass. ): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
Dec. 1948, Southern Packet (Asheville, N. C.): citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.

1949-1956:

Feb. 1949, Education: review of The Tennessee, Vol.II, by William P. Sears.
March 1949, Peabody Bi-Monthly: citation of The Tennessee, Vol. II.
July 31, 1949, N. Y. Times: " A Tribute to the Persistence of Poets," review of Lee In the Mountains, and The Wind of Time by Rolfe Humphries, review by Phyllis McGinley.
Sept. 4, 1949, Nashville Tennessean Magazine: "He Clings to Enduring Values," by Louise Davis.
Dec. 4, 1949, New York Times, citation of Lee in the Mountains.
Feb. 5, 1950, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn.): "Davidson on Yeats."
Dec. 14, 1950, Record (Columbia, S. C.): "Southern Literary Leader Visits in Columbia," by Louis Jones DuBose.
Jan. 21, 1951, Nashville Tennessean: no title; report on Davidson's activities.
Jan. 28, 1951 News(Charleston, S. C.) : "Books and People."
March 2, 1954, News (Charleston, S.C.) : ":The Letters of William Gilmore Simms."
Jan., 1954, Peabody Journal of Education (Nashville, Tn.): citation of American Composition and Rhetoric.
May 15, 1955, Nashville Tennessean: "Twenty Lessons in Reading and Writing Prose."
May 1, 1956, Nashville Banner: "Literary Leaders to Meet at V. U. for 3 Day Parley of Fugitive Poets.

1957:

March 21, 1957, The Evening Sun (Baltimore, MD.): "Books in Review/ Essays in Literature," review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays, by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
April 1, 1957, Library Journal (N. Y., N. Y.): review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays.
April 7, 1957, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn): " U. S. Conscience Commands Look By Two Writers," by Paul Flowers.
April 7, 1957, Tribune (Chicago, Ill.): "Among the Authors," by Frederic Babcock.
April 14, 1957, Nashville Tennessean: citation of The Attack on Leviathan.
April 14, 1957, Nashville Tennessean: "V. U. Prof Explores Basic Human Issues."
April 15, 1957, Book List (Chicago, Ill.): citation of, Still Yankees Still Rebels and Other Essays.
April 21, 1957, Magazine of Books, Chicago Tribune: "Voice of the Reader/ The Hinterland."
April 26, 1957, Nashville Banner: "Rich Varied Commentary On Our Times," review Of Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays, by Brainard Cheney.
April 28, 1957, Journal (Providence, R. I.): "Essays on the South," Still Rebels, Still Yankees, and Other Essays, reviewed by Charles H. Watts, II.
April 28, 1957, Pilot (Norfolk, Va.): "Nostalgic Essays/Daydreams in Dixie," review Of Still Rebels, Still Yankees, and Other Essays by Frank Blackford.
April 28, 1957, Tribune (Chicago, Ill.): "Many Stimulating Variations on a Single Theme," review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays by Ben Ray Redman.
May 4, 1957, Saturday Review: "Change vs. Tradition," Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays reviewed by J. T. W.
May 11, 1957, America: no title; citation of Still Rebels, Still Yankees, and Other Essays
June 2, 1957, Times Dispatch (Richmond, Va.): review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays by Clifford Dowdey.
June 9, 1957, Observer (Raleigh, N. C.): "Still Rebels."
July 7, 1957, Sun (Jackson, Tn.): "Teahouse of Southern Moon May Still Fit Together," review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees, and Other Essays, by Prof. William B. Hesseltine.
July 7, 1957, Oklahoman ( Oklahoma City, Oklahoma): "Too Heavy, Too Zoned," review of Kees, by J. P. Pritchard.
July 20, 1957, Times (Chattanooga, Tn.): "But How Shall the South Act," review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays by Wilma Dykeman Stokely.
Aug. 3, 1957, America: review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees by Margaret Kenny.
Autumn 1957, South Atlantic Quarterly: review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees by Jay B. Hubbell.
Sept. 1957, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: review of Still Rebels, Still Yankees by Ella Lonn.
Nov. 30, 1957, America: citation of Still Rebels, Still Yankees.

1958-1960:

Jan. 5, 1958, Sentinel (Grand Jct., Colo.): "Don Miller Memorial Collection."
March 13, 1958, The Daily Reveille (L.S.U., Baton Rouge, La.): "Fugitive Group Discussed by Poet," by Angela Maspero.
June 1, 1958, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn.): "Fugitives Again."
June 15, 1958, Picayune (New Orleans, La.): citation of Southern Writers in the Modern World.
June 21, 1958, Saturday Review (N. Y., N. Y.): citation of Southern Writers in the Modern World.
June 29, 1958, Observer (Raleigh, N. C.): "Southern Accent."
July 6, 1958, Times (Chattanooga, Tn.): "Books and Writers," by Gilbert E. Govan.
Autumn, 1958, Va. Quarterly Review: review of Southern Writers in the Modern World.
Sept. 7, 1958, Nashville Banner, "Recollections of Fugitives and Agrarians," review of Southern Writers in the Modern World, by Frances Neel Cheney.
Sept. 18, 1960, ______,(Selma, Ala.): "Sensing the News," by Thurman Sensing.
Sept. 19, 1960, Americus Times-Recorder (Americus, Ga.): "The Actual South" (editorial).

1961:

Sept. 19, 1961, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tn.): "Regional Actors Active," by Paul Flowers
Oct. 15, 1961, Anniston Star (Anniston, Ala.): "New Poems Published," The Long Street reviewed by Barbara Hodge Hall.
Oct. 15, 1961, The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, Va.): "Books of the Times/Donald Davidson and His Poetry," by Paxton Davis.
Oct. 20, 1961, Nashville Banner: "Creates Poetry That is Truly Universal," The Long Street reviewed by Robert L. Welker.
Oct. 22, 1961, Nashville Tennessean, "Collected Poems Have Warmth, Distinction," The Long Street reviewed by Dean Kenneth England.
Nov., 1961, Southern Observer: "An Authentic Southern Voice," by Durant Da Ponte.
Nov. 19, 1961, News and Courier (Charleston, S. C.): "Davidson's Poetry," by John R. Doyle.
Dec. 6, 1961, Richmond News Leader: "Major 'Fugitive' : Donald Davidson's Poetry Reveals Love of Tradition," The Long Street reviewed by Harry M. Meacham.
Dec. 27, 1961,The Christian Century: "A Vatic Poet," The Long Street reviewed by Robert Drake.
Dec. 13, 1961, Tulsa World (Tulsa, Okla.): citation of The Long Street by Bob Wyatt
Dec. 24, 1961, N. Y. Times Book Review:" Davidson's Long Street is the South."

1962-1968:

_____, 1962, South Carolina Librarian (Vol. 6, No. 2): "Book Reviews," a review
of The Long Street.
Jan. 21, 1962, The Times Picayune (New Orleans, La.): "Collected Verse of a Fugitive," The Long Street reviewed by James W. Nolan.
Jan. 22, 1962, The Evening Sun (Baltimore, Md.): "New Books in Review/Three Poets," The Long Street reviewed by Josephine Jacobsen.
Jan. 28, 1962, Chattanooga Times: "Of Books and Writers," by Gilbert E. Govan, a review of The Long Street.
Feb. 25, 1962, Sunday Advocate (Baton Rouge, La. ): "Donald Davidson's Poetry is Confident, Erudite, Honest," review of The Long Street by Miller Williams.
_____,1965, Nashville Banner: "Donald Davidson Honored by VU English Department."
_____, 1968, Atlanta Journal: "Fugitive is Dead/Compare Agrarians, Black Power," by Roy Blount, Jr.
_____, 1968, Atlanta Journal:"Attack Him Myself/ Davidson : Whole in His Acts," by Roy Blount, Jr.

Undated Newspaper Clippings About Davidson Arranged by Title:

"Authors to Lecture at Bread Loaf School/Noted Educators and Critics Also Named to Staff of Middlebury Summer Session." No newspaper title or place of publication.
"The Blooming Lyre," a review of An Outland Piper et al. By Arthur Guiterman; Outlook, April Book Supplement.
"Davidson Speaks on Poetry at U. C./Vanderbilt Professor Also Reads from Own Works in University Lecture," by Thomas Brahan. No newspaper title, Chattanooga, Tn.
"Davidson Talks on 'Place of Poetry'/ Poet Can Be Interpreter in Time of Confusion, He Tells Civitans." No newspaper title or place of publication.
"Davidson To Talk To Knox Historians." No newspaper title or place of publication.
"Dixie Problems Agrarian. Industrialism Drawa Strong Attack by Vanderbilt Educator," by Walter Paschall. No newspaper title or place of publication given.
"Dr. Donald Davidson's Lecture." No newspaper title or place of publication given.
"Donald Davidson Appears In Lecture at Centennial Club." No newspaper title or place of publication given.
"Donald Davidson Discussed Modern Poetry Before Literary Department/Lecture Inaugurated Series of Studies for Centennial Club Members." Nashville Tennessean.
"Donald Davidson's Talk on Poetry Centennial Club Attraction." No newspaper title or place of publication given.
"A Far Fair Strain," An Outland Piper, reviewed by Joseph T. Shipley. No newspaper title or place of publication given.
"Future Poem Prizes Awarded." No newspaper title or place of publication given.
"Good Evenin'/What Did Lee Think of Surrender." No newspaper title or place of publication given.
"The Lantern," edited by J. C. Comfort. No newspaper title or place of publication given.
"The Literary Lantern," three different columns. No newspaper titles or places of publication given.
"Lucid, Yet Modern," Lee in the Mountains and OtherPoems reviewed by Richmond Croom Beatty. Nashville Banner or Nashville Tennessean.
"A Nashville 'Fugitive' Talks for Robert E. Lee/Donald Davidson Shows Southern Poets Are Still Not Reconciled," by John Holmes. No newspaper title or place of publication given.
"A Note on 'The Fugitive'." The Vanderbilt Hustler.
"Our Book for the Week/ The Tall Men." The Cadet (Virginia Military Institute).
"An Outland Piper." No newspaper title or place of publication given.
"The Poet as Southerner," The Tall Men reviewed by Jay B. Hubbell. The Archive.
"Poetry Society of Tennessee Organized Saturday Evening." Nashville Banner.
"Roaming Tennessee Writers," by Gilbert E. Govan. No newspaper title or place of publication given.
"The Tall Men." The New Republic.
"Taste for Poetry Inherent in U. S./Donald Davidson Speaks at Luncheon Meeting of Kiwanis Club." Nashville Banner
"A Tennessee Poet," a review of The Tall Men by Willis Posey. Asheville Times (N.C.).
"Tennessee Story Told in American Rivers Chronicles," by George Barmann. Plain Dealer.
"'Undamaged Souls' Is Topic of Donald Davidson's Club Lecture." Nashville Banner or Nashville Tennessean.
"Verse That Entertains But Is Unimportant," comment on An Outland Piper and on Archibald MacLeish's The Happy Marriage.
Untitled-two reviews of An Outland Piper
One unrelated fragment
Notice of Davidson's speaking before the American Association of University Women, no newspaper title or place of publication given.
"Industrialism Holds No Salvation For the South, Agrarian Warns," no newspaper title or place of publication given.

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Donald Davidson Papers Appendix B: Literary Career-List of Newspaper Clippings 1924-1968

Donald Davidson Papers
Appendix B: Literary Career-List of Newspaper Clippings 1924-1968