Table of Contents:
  • The south and Faraway Country
  • The road to Yoknapatawpha: George W. Cable and John March, Southerner
  • Chronicles of Yoknapatawpha: the dynasties of William Faulkner
  • Thomas Wolfe: time and the south
  • Burden's Landing: All the king's men and the modern south
  • The golden apples of the sun
  • The poetry of agrarianism
  • William Styron: notes on a southern writer in our time
  • Postscript: a look backward and ahead.