Allen Tate biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Allen Tate

Author Name:

Allen Tate

Born As:

John Orley Allen Tate

Other Names:

Born:

19 Nov 1899

Died:

09 Feb 1979




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Poet                          
Selected Works:

Poetry Collections:

Poems, 1928-1931, 1932
The Mediterranean and Other Poems - 1936
Selected Poems - 1937
The Winter Sea - 1944
Poems, 1920-1945, 1947
Poems, 1922-1947, 1948
Two Conceits for the Eye to Sing, If Possible - 1950
Poems - 1960
Poems - 1961
Collected Poems - 1970
The Swimmers and Other Selected Poems - 1970

Prose Collections:
Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier - 1928
Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall - 1929
Robert E. Lee - 1932
Reactionary Essays on Poetry and Ideas - 1936
The Fathers - 1938
Reason in Madness - 1941
On the Limits of Poetry: Selected Essays, 1928-1948, 1948
The Hovering Fly - 1949
The Forlorn Demon - 1953
The Man of Letters in the Modern World - 1955
Collected Essays - 1959.
Essays of Four Decades - 1969
Memoirs and Opinions, 1926-1974, 1975.                          
Mother Eleanor Parke Custis Varnell
Father John Orley Tate                           
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress - 1943-1944.