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Allen Tate


Born
in Winchester, Kentucky, The United States
November 19, 1899

Died
February 09, 1979

Genre
Poetry, Biography


Poetry of especially known American writer and editor John Orley Allen Tate includes "Ode to the Confederate Dead" (1926); a leading exponent of New Criticism, he edited the Sewanee Review from 1944 to 1946.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 421 ratings · 63 reviews · 88 distinct works • Similar authors
The Fathers
3.64 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1938 — 34 editions
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Collected Poems, 1919-1976
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3.70 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1978 — 10 editions
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Stonewall Jackson: The Good...
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4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1928 — 20 editions
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Essays of Four Decades
4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1967 — 10 editions
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Jefferson Davis: His Rise a...
4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1929 — 28 editions
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Poems 1922-1947
3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions
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T.S. Eliot: the Man and His...
3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1966 — 14 editions
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Memoirs and Opinions: 1926-...
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1975 — 4 editions
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The swimmers, and other sel...
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions
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The Man of Letters in the M...
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 11 editions
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“Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.”
― Allen Tate
tags: culture, idealism
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“We who get plenty to eat and get it
Advertising the starvation of others
Understand everything not including
Ourselves: We have enough to eat.
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Everybody but us is an example of capitalism.”
― Allen Tate
tags: awareness, contentment, poetry, relation, tate, understanding
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“So face with calm that heritage and earn contempt before the age.”
― Allen Tate, Poems 1922-1947
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