renders what is merely argued in Scratch,” (53). He reasons that Jericho, Jericho” ‘Old “Jericho, represents Lytle’s transition from Southern Agrarianism to Southern fiction. Lytle’s first novel, was released later that year. While its setting, dialogue and story were distinctly The Long Night, Southern in style, Lytle successfully portrayed the South with a sole literary intent. Lytle continued to develop his literary career in the next few years, earning a Guggenheim fellowship in 1940 and publishing his second novel, in late 1941. In an effort to support At The Moon’s Inn, his family, including his first daughter, Pamela, Lytle accepted an invitation to teach at the Sewanee Military Academy later that year. In early 1942, Alexander Guerry, the vice-chancellor at the University of the South (at Sewanee the vice-chancellor holds the authority of chancellor while the titular chancellor is the regional bishop of the Episcopalian Church) hired Lytle to teach history at the University level. In their conversations Guerry complained frequently to Lytle about then editor, W.S. Knickerbocker, hoping the could become as successful as the other university quarterlies of SR its day. Before the early 1940’s there would have been neither sense nor purpose in the SR assigning itself purely to literature—several quarterlies were already devoted to the subject, including and, most notably, the The Dial, Hound & Horn, The Symposium, Southern Review, edited by the Fugitive-Agrarians Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren at LSU from 1935-42. Despite their successes, all of these magazines eventually folded under serious financial strain, and wartime budget cuts. George Core notes that the was superfluous Southern Review “declared by the narrow-minded and autocratic general then running Louisiana State University” (Core Editorial History 72) being the last of these quarterlies to shut down in 1942. The implications of the collapse of the were intimately discussed in correspondence between Lytle Southern Review and Allen Tate. The pair would soon collaborate to manage the to unparalleled success at a SR
renders what is merely argued in ‘Old Scratch,” (53). He reasons that “Jericho, Jericho, Jericho” represents Lytle’s transition from Southern Agrarianism to Southern fiction. Lytle’s first novel, The Long Night, was released later that year. While its setting, dialogue and story were distinctly Southern in style, Lytle successfully portrayed the South with a sole literary intent. Lytle continued to develop his literary career in the next few years, earning a Guggenheim fellowship in 1940 and publishing his second novel, At The Moon’s Inn, in late 1941. In an effort to support his family, including his first daughter, Pamela, Lytle accepted an invitation to teach at the Sewanee Military Academy later that year. In early 1942, Alexander Guerry, the vice-chancellor at the University of the South (at Sewanee the vice-chancellor holds the authority of chancellor while the titular chancellor is the regional bishop of the Episcopalian Church) hired Lytle to teach history at the University level. In their conversations Guerry complained frequently to Lytle about then editor, W.S. Knickerbocker, hoping the SR could become as successful as the other university quarterlies of its day. Before the early 1940’s there would have been neither sense nor purpose in the SR assigning itself purely to literature—several quarterlies were already devoted to the subject, including The Dial, Hound & Horn, The Symposium, and, most notably, the Southern Review, edited by the Fugitive-Agrarians Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren at LSU from 1935-42. Despite their successes, all of these magazines eventually folded under serious financial strain, and wartime budget cuts. George Core notes that the Southern Review was “declared superfluous by the narrow-minded and autocratic general then running Louisiana State University” (Core Editorial History 72) being the last of these quarterlies to shut down in 1942. The implications of the collapse of the Southern Review were intimately discussed in correspondence between Lytle and Allen Tate. The pair would soon collaborate to manage the SR to unparalleled success at a
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