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Allen Tate

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Quotations
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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...


Biography

Name: Allen Tate
Birth Date: November 19, 1899
Death Date: February 9, 1979
Place of Birth: Winchester, Kentucky, United States
Place of Death: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, critic, editor

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Biography of Allen Tate
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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...
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Biography of (John) (Orley) Allen Tate
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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...
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Biography of (John) (Orley) Allen Tate
5,961 words, approx. 20 pages
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...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Allen Tate Information
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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...


News and Journals
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National Review
Allen Tate: A Recollection.
01/27/1989: 796 words, approx. 3 pages
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...
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Journal of Southern History
Allen Tate: Orphan of the South.
08/01/2002: 561 words, approx. 2 pages
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,...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Robert S. Dupree
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In the following essay, Dupree regards the theme of failed civilization, especially that of the Southern Confederacy, as central to Tate's poetry.
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Critical Essay by Lillian Feder
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In the following essay, Feder elucidates the influence of classical myths and literature on Tate's poetry.
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Critical Essay by Delmore Schwartz
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In the following essay, Schwartz discusses Tate as an honest poet and investigates the relationship between his essays and poetry.
 


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