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 was born in Clark County, Kentucky. After an uneven preparatory education, he entered Vanderbilt University in September 1918. During the course of his studies, he became a student of John Crowe Ransom, who remembers Tate in those...

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...