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From: Poetry[(review date February 1938) In the following review, Morse notes the lack of development in Tate's poetry, but underlines the strengths of the poems collected in Selected Poems.] In the current issue of the Virginia...
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From: Frames of Southern Mind: Reflections on the Stoic, Be-Racial and Existential South[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Gretlund provides a stylistic and thematic analysis of "Ode to the Confederate Dead."] Allen Tate began the "Ode to the Confederate Dead" in 1925, and the poem was first...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 28, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAllen Tate was a poet and college professor as well as an anticommunist, antifascist and member of the Agrarian writers group. He returned to the University of the South at Sewanee where he had gone to school in 1968 to...
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From: Modern Lives: A Cultural Re-Reading of "The Lost Generation,"[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Dolan analyzes the "symbolic revision of literal elements of the era" performed by writers and artists of the 1920s in order to create the specific entity known as the Lost...
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From: Modernist Studies[In the following essay, Schwartz explains the fragmentation of The Bridge by discussing the ways in which Crane's temperament and training were actually unsuitable to the writing of such a poem.] I would like to...
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From: Allen Tate[(essay date 1967) In the following essay, Bishop provides a reading of several of Tate's early poems, maintaining that it was his ability "to incorporate the tone of his age into the rhythms of his poetry that made his...
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From: The American South: Portrait of a Culture[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Core provides an introduction to the Fugitives and the Agrarians. He emphasizes the Fugitive devotion to the idea of the “man of letters,” or literature as a vocation rather...
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From: The Fugitives: A Critical AccountDespite [his] imposing record, Tate has not proved an original, seminal critic for his generation, as have Eliot, Richards, Edmund Wilson, and Kenneth Burke. His earlier work, both in the Fugitive articles and in his...
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From: Studies in the Humanities[(essay date December 2000) In the following essay, Lecouras argues that Lowell's late poetry should be viewed as a conscious attempt to overcome the modernism--inspired by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound--of his earlier...
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From: Renascence[(essay date spring 1951) In the following essay, Bernetta examines the theme of damnation in Tate's poetry.] Gentlemen, my secret is Damnation. ("To the Lacedemonians") Certain critics have...
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From: Poetry[(review date September 1945) In the following review, Brooks praises the topicality and richness of the poems in The Winter Sea, contending that the collection "deserves to be read by every one seriously interested in...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAllen Tate and Andrew Lytle developed a form of literary criticism in the 1950s in which they applied the theories of rhetoric and raised the ideal of communication in literary practice. Their New Criticism drew many...
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From: Paul Elmer More[(essay date 1966) In the following excerpt, Duggan explores More's association with the New Humanists, focusing on the attack on his ideas in C. Hartley Grattan's The Critique of Humanism.] The New Humanism...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAllen Tate's novel The Fathers opens with an expression of confusion. Lacy Buchan remembers his Uncle Armistead, "who deaf and half blind said only `Hanh?' to remarks directed to him, and he never asked a question. My...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe "Maimed Man" trilogy, including "The Maimed Man," "The Swimmers," and "The Buried Lake" (1952-53), comprises a terza rima cycle of poems linked not only by form but by connected imagery of mutilation, musical...
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From: Accent[(essay date summer 1951) In the following essay, Berland explores the role of violence in Tate's poetry and finds parallels between his verse and that of John Webster.] Duchess: I could curse the stars-- Bosola: O,...
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From: William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism[(essay date 2002) In this essay, Wagner-Martin provides an overview of the critical reception of Faulkner since the 1940s, focusing particularly on the transition from Southern Agrarian critics--who read Faulkner...
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From: Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction, Ann Jefferson and David Robey[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, Robey offers an overview of New Criticism, including an explanation of the theories of I. A. Richards, as well as the development of New Criticism in England and the United...
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From: Thought[(essay date March 1990) In the following essay, Arbery determines the influence of Dante on Tate's work.] Of the writers born in 1899 who achieved world wide recognition--among them Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov,...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn some circles, the Confederate dead get short shrift these days, when they get remembered at all. It was not always thus. Once upon a time, the South's fallen were the subjects of reverent annual parades, lachrymose...