Whose words are dry and faint as in a dream?
In one essay, this author claimed that the South is unique within America for defending a culture built on European principles. This author wrote a poem in which a girl refuses to be "instructed in how deep / Was the forgetful kingdom of death" after her pet hen is fatally stung by a bee. In a poem by him, a woman asks: "But what grey man among the vines is this / Whose words are dry and faint as in a dream?" to a man who repeatedly says "I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying". His essay (*) "Reconstructed But Unregenerate" is the first in a volume co-written with fellow Vanderbilt students and faculty such as Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren, I'll Take My Stand. This author of "Janet Waking" and "Piazza Piece" wrote a poem in which lazy geese cry "Alas" at a girl whose "brown study / Astonishes us all". For 10 points, name this first editor of the Kenyon Review, the poet of "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter".
In one essay, this author claimed that the South is unique within America for defending a culture built on European principles.
John Crowe Ransom