John Orley Allen Tate ( November 19 , 1899 - February 9 , 1979 ) was an American poet, essayist, and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress , 1943 - 1944. Sourced They darted down and rose up like a wave...
Allen Tate (1899-1979), American poet, critic, biographer, and editor, was a founder and editor of the Fugitive. John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks were also part of the Fugitive group, and they and Tate formulated the New...
The phrase "man of letters," so often used in praise of Allen Tate, may suggest by its near-obsolescence that Tate and his work belong to the past, perhaps to the Old South, not to the late-twentieth century. That impression is false. Tate may be...
The breadth of Allen Tate's publications and other activities is almost astonishing. He was a poet, critic, novelist, playwright, reviewer, editor, translator, bibliographer, lecturer, and teacher. His influence was prodigious, his circle of...
John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1943 - 1944. Allen Tate was born near Winchester, Kentucky the son of...
Allen Tate: A Recollection, by Waker Sullivan (Louisiana State University, 117 pp., $16.95) INFERIOR MINDS are interested in things. Average minds are interested in personalities. Superior minds are interested in principles. The lower categories are excluded from the higher, but the reverse is...
By Thomas A. Underwood. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2000. Pp. viii, 447. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-06950-6.) Twenty years ago Michael O'Brien (The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 [Baltimore, 1979]) and Daniel J. Singal (The War Within [Chapel Hill,...
