For the American vocalist and songwriter, see Allen Tate (musician).
Allen Tate
Born
(1899-11-19)November 19, 1899 Winchester, Kentucky, U.S.
Died
February 9, 1979(1979-02-09) (aged 79) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation
Poet, essayist
Education
Vanderbilt University
Genre
Poetry, literary criticism
Literary movement
New Criticism
Notable works
"Ode to the Confederate Dead"
Spouses
Caroline Gordon
(m. 1925; div. 1945)
(m. 1946; div. 1959)
Isabella Gardner
(m. 1959; div. 1966)
Helen Heinz
(m. 1966)
John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979), known professionally as Allen Tate, was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and poet laureate from 1943 to 1944. Among his best known works are the poems "Ode to the Confederate Dead" (1928) and "The Mediterranean" (1933), and his only novel The Fathers (1938). He is associated with New Criticism, the Fugitives and the Southern Agrarians.
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filmmaking siblings Albert and Allen Hughes approached him to star in their debut feature Menace II Society in 1993. In the film, Tate portrayed "O-Dog", a trigger-happy...
Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-28404-6 Tate, Allen (1955). "Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize". In AllenTate (ed.). The Man Of Letters In The Modern...
John Crowe Ransom of Kenyon College, whose students (all Southerners), AllenTate, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren would go on to develop the aesthetics...
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work. Lowell stated, "The poets who most directly influenced me ... were AllenTate, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams. An unlikely combination...
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of bravery, are written in a frank but restrained prose style. He and AllenTate co-wrote a book of poetry called "The Golden Mean; and other poems " which...
Caroline Gordon, Margaret Mitchell, Katherine Anne Porter, Erskine Caldwell, AllenTate, Tennessee Williams, Robert Penn Warren, and Zora Neale Hurston, among...
(Rutgers, 1970), a volume in tribute to Francis Fergusson, the critic AllenTate wrote: "The Idea of a Theater is a work comparable in range and depth...
1924, Gordon returned home to Kentucky, when she met the poet AllenTate. She moved with Tate to New York City, where they first lived together in Greenwich...
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on soap. Morgan attended Princeton University, where he studied under AllenTate. Morgan also translated poems from the French. The Tarot of Cornelius...
primarily as a kind of poetry workshop and included Donald Davidson, AllenTate, and Robert Penn Warren. Under their influence, Ransom, whose first interest...
Southern poets consisting of such influential writers as John Crowe Ransom, AllenTate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren, met Saturday evenings to read...
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