What does fugitives?

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The Fugitives were a group of poets and literary scholars who came together at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, around 1920. They published a small literary magazine called The Fugitive from 1922 to 1925 which showcased their works. Although its published life was brief, The Fugitive is considered to be one of the most influential publications in the history of American letters. The Fugitives made Vanderbilt a fountainhead of the New Criticism, the dominate mode of textual analysis in English during the first half of the twentieth century. Among the most notable Fugitives were John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, etc.