Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks founded The Southern Review at LSU in 1935, and it immediately became one of the most influential literary journals in America — publishing Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Ford Madox Ford, and Wallace Stevens in its first decade. Huey Long tried to shut it down. It survived, and it is still published from LSU today. The university that Long built to be a football powerhouse became, briefly, one of the great literary centers in the country.
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- ·Founded by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks at LSU in 1935.
- ·Published Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Ford Madox Ford, and Wallace Stevens in its first decade.
- ·Huey Long tried to shut it down; it survived and is still published from LSU today.
- ·The university Long built as a football powerhouse briefly became one of America's great literary centers.
- ·Back issues and archives available through LSU's Hill Memorial Library.
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