Something well worth reading and considering. Weaver exemplifies the difference between a trained person and an educated person.

Weaver's essays show deep insight into the South from the founding of our country to present. He compliments other authors while adding his own deep insights. Well worthwhile reading.

Weaver studied under some of the Agrarians at Vanderbuilt, and this collection of essays represent his neo-Agrarian work. Weaver wrote most of these while he was teaching at Chicago, and they are truly timely, now that we see so many issues in the news regarding state vs. federal authority and the 10th ammendment.

The quality of language in this series of essays is nothing short of remarkable. Weaver is clearly a master of the written word, which he uses to great purpose in defense of the Southern tradition of the United States.

His old-fashioned defense of the South and the Confederacy’s lost cause is necessarily antiquated. Yet he presents a solid case, especially when arguing on the basis of first principles rather than base politics. The notion that the conservative agrarian’s outlook on life is more noble and natural than his industrialist neighbour need not be in contention with the repugnance of racial segregation - as far as I am concerned.

Weaver’s characterization of the South as the traditional and medieval section in the style of the Old World within the United States was interesting to me - insofar as it can be transposed to other multicultural countries as well. I was reminded of my fellow Malays in Malaysia for example, who like the South, are known for their feudalism, courtesy, martial valor, provincialism, unmoving religiosity, sentimentality, and addiction to politics.

Excellent first read of the new year. Definitely keen to read Weaver’s other works in the future - in sha Allah.

Magnificent as ever. Nobody can beat Weaver for insightful, erudite reflections on the Southern tradition.

Demonstrates the old South as the last remnant of Christendom, as exemplified in her heroes. Attempts to vindicate the Vanderbilt Agrarians by foiling them against the Industrial World.

Weaver's writing style is utterly magnificent and the opening essays have a poignant and haunting beauty that few can match. That being said, I think the Vanderbilt Agrarians generally failed in what they were trying to do.

I read this book for the first time in 2009 and I continue to reread the essays on an individual basis. In these short essays Weaver is very insightful in his study of the culture, philosophy, and tradition of the South and applying it to our current struggles against modernity and the like.

The southern essays of Richard M. Weaver by Richard M. Weaver (1987)

A beautifully written set of essays that illuminate the often overlooked virtues of the American south. I didn’t agree with all the ideas in here, but I appreciate Weaver’s efforts in bringing a not often heard narrative to the fore.

Conservatism today has identified itself with industrial powers, but it was not always so. The Southern tradition holds that industrialism with its obsession for progress and higher profits was anti-conservative. This Southern conception of conservatism is much more to my taste. There is a pious acceptance that nature is not to be conquered and exploited, but to be husbanded and accepted as God's creation. Though Weaver's writing is not as eloquent, or as explicit, as Wendell Berry's, there is still much here to admire. He reveals the shameful hypocrisy of New England in agitating for their own succession from 1803-1815, then deriding the south for breaking the union in the 1860s. He explains why the south was anti-socialist as well as anti-capitalist. He shows why the south's reverence for the word explains their consummate skill in oratory and in literature, as well as their respect for the Bible. He gives us the mind of the south, which is salutary in an age when the masses have become too indoctrinated in northern ways of thought.

Everything Weaver wrote is gold (even though there are several repeated points throughout the collection and points of overlap with his other writings), and his writings seem to increase in value as the years continue to pass. The best essays, to me, were: Contemporary Southern Literature, Two Types of American Individualism, Southern Chivalry and Total War, Lee the Philosopher, Aspects of the Southern Philosophy, and The Southern Tradition.

The epigraph chosen for this collection of essays captures the essence of the collection brilliantly: "So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age" (Allen Tate, "Brief Message").

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