Tate, Allen 1899-1979

Overview

Works:	686 works in 1,857 publications in 7 languages and 62,085 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Poetry Biography Literature Fiction Records and correspondence Short stories Biographies History Juvenile works
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Performer, Collaborator, Other, Speaker, Author of introduction, Contributor, Compiler
Classifications:	PS3539.A74, 818.5209

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Allen Tate

Allen Tate by Ferman Bishop( Book )
Allen Tate by George Hemphill( Book )
Memoirs and opinions, 1926-1974 by Allen Tate( Book )
Southern fiction today; renascence and beyond by Walter Sullivan( Book )
Allen Tate and his work : critical evaluations by Radcliffe Squires( Book )

Allen Tate; a literary biography by Radcliffe Squires( Book )
Fictions of capital : the American novel from James to Mailer by Richard Godden( Book )
The last alternatives; a study of the works of Allen Tate by R. K Meiners( Book )
The cultural politics of the New Criticism by Mark Jancovich( Book )
Three Catholic writers of the modern South by Robert H Brinkmeyer( Book )
The literary correspondence of Donald Davidson and Allen Tate by Donald Davidson( Book )
The Southern mandarins : letters of Caroline Gordon to Sally Wood, 1924-1937 by Caroline Gordon( Book )
The unregenerate South : the agrarian thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson by Mark G Malvasi( Book )
Hart Crane & Allen Tate : Janus-faced modernism by Langdon Hammer( Book )
The years of our friendship : Robert Lowell and Allen Tate by William Doreski( Book )
Allen Tate : the modern mind and the discovery of enduring love by John V Glass( Book )
The republic of letters in America : the correspondence of John Peale Bishop & Allen Tate by John Peale Bishop( )

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Most widely held works by Allen Tate

Collected poems, 1919-1976 by Allen Tate( Book )

65 editions published between 1417 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 2,564 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

One of the early-twentieth century Southern intellectuals and artists of the early twentieth century known as the Agrarians, Allen Tate wrote poetry that was rooted strongly in that region's past, in the land, the people, and the traditions of the American South as well as in the forms and concerns of the classic poets. In "Ode to the Confederate Dead", generally recognized as his greatest poem, he delineates both the horror of the sight of rows of tombstones at a Confederate cemetery and the honor that such sacrifice embodies, resulting in "a masterpiece that could not be transcended" (William Pratt)

American poetry : the twentieth century( Book )

1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,361 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens

Modern verse in English, 1900-1950 by David Cecil( Book )

38 editions published between 1958 and 1969 in English and German and held by 1,669 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This anthology aims at giving a representative selection of poetry in English published between 1900 and 1950. It includes both British and American poets and is the only anthology of the period to do so. Lord David Cecil contributes an introduction to the British poets; Professor Allen Tate to the American. The poets themselves are arranged in a single chronological sequence

Essays of four decades by Allen Tate( Book )

34 editions published between 1959 and 1999 in English and held by 1,605 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Includes critical essays on John Keats, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Hart Crane, Thomas Hardy, Edwin Arlington Robinson, John Peale Bishop, Archibald MacLeish, Ezra Pound, Herbert Read, Edgar Allan Poe, and T.S. Eliot, among others

The fathers by Allen Tate( Book )

95 editions published between 1938 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 1,401 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Set during the Civil War, The Fathers is the story of two old Virginia families, the Buchans of Pleasant Hill and the Poseys of Georgetown. It tells of the collapse of a way of life, hastened not by the onslaught of Yankees but by a tragic flaw within the civilization of the Old South

The house of fiction; an anthology of the short story, with commentary by Caroline Gordon( Book )

14 editions published between 1950 and 1960 in English and held by 1,326 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Six American poets from Emily Dickinson to the present : an introduction by Allen Tate( Book )

18 editions published between 1965 and 2013 in English and held by 1,275 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Stonewall Jackson, the good soldier by Allen Tate( Book )

41 editions published between 1928 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,230 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Profiles the life and career of Confederate Civil War commander Stonewall Jackson

The language of poetry by Allen Tate( Book )

23 editions published between 1942 and 1960 in English and Hungarian and held by 1,116 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reactionary essays on poetry and ideas by Allen Tate( Book )

24 editions published between 1936 and 1968 in English and French and held by 965 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On the limits of poetry : selected essays, 1928-1948 by Allen Tate( Book )

21 editions published between 1948 and 1970 in English and held by 942 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Jefferson Davis: his rise and fall, a biographical narrative by Allen Tate( Book )

36 editions published between 1929 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 928 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Written early in Tate's career, this study of the Confederacy's fallen leader is highly critical of his flaws yet ultimately sympathetic to the Southern cause. Allen Tate (1899-1979), a major American poet and a leading New Critic, was the author of many works of criticism and poetry as well as a Civil War novel, The Fathers, and Stonewall Jackson

The swimmers, and other selected poems by Allen Tate( Book )

15 editions published between 1970 and 1971 in English and held by 882 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The man of letters in the modern world : selected essays: 1928-1955 by Allen Tate( Book )

25 editions published between 1953 and 1964 in English and held by 864 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collected essays by Allen Tate( Book )

2 editions published in 1959 in English and held by 855 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A southern vanguard by Allen Tate( Book )

25 editions published between 1947 and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 848 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reason in madness; critical essays by Allen Tate( Book )

29 editions published between 1935 and 1988 in English and Undetermined and held by 810 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The forlorn demon; didactic and critical essays by Allen Tate( Book )

22 editions published between 1937 and 1970 in English and held by 761 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The republic of letters in America : the correspondence of John Peale Bishop & Allen Tate by John Peale Bishop( Book )

7 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 475 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The correspondence of John Peale Bishop and Allen Tate, extending from 1929 to the time of Bishop's death in 1944, embraces the period of the Great Depression and the coming of World War II. In that richly eventful period in the development of American literature, these two men of letters were continually exchanging news and comment about the activities, opinions, successes, and misadventures of poets, novelists, critics, publishers, and editors; about expatriate Americans in Europe and the quickening intellectual life of New York; and about the Agrarian movement and what was later to be calle

The Lytle-Tate letters : the correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate by Andrew Nelson Lytle( Book )

8 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 366 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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