1)a feeling for the concrete and the specific
2)an awareness of conflict
3)a sense of community and religious wholeness
4)a belief in human imperfection
5)genuine and never wavering disbelief in perfection ever developing as a result of human effort and planning
6)a deep seated sense of the tragic
7)a conviction that nature is mysterious and contingent
Any attempt to harness nature and make it a servant of man will always be doomed to failure.
This is the ground in which the South's artistic promptings took root and flourished.
-Cleanth Brooks - distinctive characteristics of the Southern tradition
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