Excerpt from Renaissance in the South: A Critical History of the Literature, 1920-1960 But Mississippi's case is symptomatic rather than unique in the recent literary history of the South, for the general revival lof - Southern letters since the First World War has been the major literary phenom enon of our time. North Carolina and Georgia have produced even more prolifically. Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina have been rivalled nationally only by Virginia, Tennessee, East Texas, and, indeed, Kentucky. There have been important contributions, too, from Maryland, from Florida, though much of that state has become a Northern province, from Eastern Arkansas, and from the Shenandoah Valley in West Virginia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.