The poems that Davidson [composed] in the early 1920s had mostly to do with demon pipers, tigers, dragons, and the like; they were musical, romantic, and the language was more like that of the early Yeats than of T. S. Eliot or even of the Yeats of post-1910. The pen name he chose for the work that appeared in the first two numbers of The Fugitive, "Robin Gallivant," suited perfectly the approach to the poems. (p. 144)

["A Demon Brother," however inferior poetically to the revised version entitled "An Outland Piper,"] pronounces the theme of Davidson's career as poet. For as poet and as Agrarian, he would indeed be looking for "someone I sought and lost of noble kin"—the image of the southern forebear of days gone by, the "Tall Man," whether as pioneer Tennessean or Confederate hero, who could stand up for what he believed and not...