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).

Allen Tate was a poet, critic, biographer, and novelist. Born and raised in Kentucky, he earned his BA from Vanderbilt University, where he was the only undergraduate to be admitted to the Fugitives, an informal group of Southern intellectuals that included John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Merrill Moore, and Robert Penn Warren. Tate is now ...

2025年2月5日 · Allen Tate was an American poet, teacher, novelist, and a leading exponent of the New Criticism. In both his criticism and his poetry, he emphasized the writer’s need for a tradition to adhere to; he found his tradition in the culture of …

Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, and critic who played a significant role in the Southern literary renaissance. His work often grapples with themes of history, tradition, and the South's complex relationship with modernity.

Poet Allen Tate was a founding editor of The Fugitive and had a great influence as a critic and a mentor to younger poets.

Allen Tate was born in Winchester, Kentucky, in 1899. He was the author of 14 poetry collections, including Mr. Pope and Other Poems (1928), Selected Poems (1937), and Collected Poems, 1919-1976 (1977). He also wrote two biographies, a novel, and more than 15 books of prose.

Allen Tate was a famous American poet laureate from Winchester, who initially pursued music and later turned his interests towards literature. Along with his friend and fellow poet Robert Warren, he became a member of literary associations, ‘Fugitives’ and 'Southern Agrarians'.

A teacher, biographer, poet, and leader of the New Criticism movement, John Orley Allen Tate joined his peers at Vanderbilt University in defaming modernity and encroaching technology, which he feared compromised humanity.

3 天之前 · In 1928, Tate published his first book of poetry, Mr. Pope and Others Poems which contained his most famous poem, "Ode to the Confederate Dead" (not to be confused with "Ode to the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery" written by American Civil War poet and South Carolina native, Henry Timrod).

John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899– February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944. Tate was born near Winchester, Kentucky, to John Orley Tate, a businessman, and Eleanor Parke Custis Varnell.