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Allen Tate (19 November 1899 - 9 February 1979 / Winchester, Kentucky)
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John Orley Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.
Life
Tate was born near Winchester, Kentucky to John Orley Tate, a businessman, and Eleanor Parke Custis Varnell. In 1916 and 1917 Tate studied the violin at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
He began attending Vanderbilt University in 1918, where he met fellow poet Robert Penn Warren . Warren and Tate were invited to join a group of young Southern poets under the leadership of John Crowe Ransom; the group were known as the Fugitive ... more »
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''I've often wondered why she laughed
Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Edges."
On thinking why I wondered so;
It seemed such waste that long white hands
Should touch my hands and let them go.''
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''She, her head back, waited
Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Pastoral."
Barbarous the stalking tide;
Her, nor balked nor sated
But plunged into the wide
Area of mental ire,
Lay at her wandering side.''
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There are wolves in the next room waiting
With heads bent low, thrust out, breathing
At nothing in the dark; between them and me
A white door patched with light from the hallAllen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "The Wolves."
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''Our loss put six feet under ground
Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Elegy."
Is measured by the magnolia's root;
Our gain's the intellectual sound
Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.''
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