time when other literary magazines were being discontinued across the nation owing to the financial constraints of the war. Lytle and Tate directed the magazine to new heights both ideologically and financially, and Lytle’s contribution stands as his significant contribution to the longstanding legacy of the SR. With the out of the picture, Lytle sensed that the time was ripe for Tate Southern Review to lead the into a new era, inciting Tate in a letter on January 30, 1942, to him [Guerry] SR “tell that now is the time for the to take the place of the and that Sewanee Review Southern Review, you might take the Academy job until Knickerbocker's contract expired, when you would be made editor of that and do more or less what you have been doing at Princeton” (Young and Sarcone 181). Tate’s time a Princeton is notable, since he served as a poet-in-residence and helped found the university’s creative writing program. Lytle knew that Tate possessed both the drive and the ability to transform the from what Tate would call graveyard for second-rate SR “a professors” (Young and Sarcone 186) into a leading national literary review. As as 1936, Allen Tate, a fellow Agrarian and one of the founders of The magazine at Vanderbilt publishing some of the Agrarians’ best poems—had formed his own opinions about the management of literary quarterlies and a program for their continued success. Tate outlines his argument in Function of the Critical Quarterly,” published in the Southern “The His argument is formed on the notion that a quarterly review is the most appropriate Review. forum for continued critical discussion, but also the most vulnerable to financial pressure. Unlike weekly or even monthly magazines, best quarterlies have readers but not enough readers to “our pay the of production’” (63). Moreover, many quarterlies of Tate’s era did not pay their ‘cost contributors, including the which led more prominent writers to more affluent magazines. SR, These magazines pay better rates for manuscripts than the most flourishing quarterly can “can
time when other literary magazines were being discontinued across the nation owing to the financial constraints of the war. Lytle and Tate directed the magazine to new heights both ideologically and financially, and Lytle’s contribution stands as his significant contribution to the longstanding legacy of the SR. With the Southern Review out of the picture, Lytle sensed that the time was ripe for Tate to lead the SR into a new era, inciting Tate in a letter on January 30, 1942, to “tell him [Guerry] that now is the time for the Sewanee Review to take the place of the Southern Review, and that you might take the Academy job until Knickerbocker's contract expired, when you would be made editor of that and do more or less what you have been doing at Princeton” (Young and Sarcone 181). Tate’s time a Princeton is notable, since he served as a poet-in-residence and helped found the university’s creative writing program. Lytle knew that Tate possessed both the drive and the ability to transform the SR from what Tate would call “a graveyard for second-rate professors” (Young and Sarcone 186) into a leading national literary review. As as 1936, Allen Tate, a fellow Agrarian and one of the founders of The magazine at Vanderbilt publishing some of the Agrarians’ best poems—had formed his own opinions about the management of literary quarterlies and a program for their continued success. Tate outlines his argument in “The Function of the Critical Quarterly,” published in the Southern Review. His argument is formed on the notion that a quarterly review is the most appropriate forum for continued critical discussion, but also the most vulnerable to financial pressure. Unlike weekly or even monthly magazines, “our best quarterlies have readers but not enough readers to pay the ‘cost of production’” (63). Moreover, many quarterlies of Tate’s era did not pay their contributors, including the SR, which led more prominent writers to more affluent magazines. These magazines “can pay better rates for manuscripts than the most flourishing quarterly can