Tate, Allen, 1899-1979

Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, literary critic, novelist, and translator.

John Orley Allen Tate was born in Winchester, Clarke County, Kentucky, in 1899. He attended Vanderbilt University and graduated magna cum laude in 1922. He married the novelist Caroline Gordon in 1924. Tate was a founding editor of The Fugitive , a magazine of verse published out of Nashville, Tennessee, from 1922 to 1925. The magazine was named for the Fugitives, a group of Southern poets which included Tate and several of his colleagues from Vanderbilt, including John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Donald Davidson, and Merrill Moore. The Fugitives were practitioners and defenders of formal technique in poetry and were preoccupied with the defending the traditional values of the agrarian South against the effects of urban industrialization. [from poets.org]

American poet.

Allen Tate was born in Kentucky; his family moved constantly, making his schooling erratic. He attended Vanderbilt University, where he met John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and other members of the influential Fugitives group. He moved to New York, where he mingled in literary circles, and produced his first volume of poetry and a biography of Stonewall Jackson. He travelled to London and Paris, making connections with more literary figures. Returning to America, he established himself as an influential poet, critic, and man-of-letters, becoming a key figure in the Southern Renaissance and American literature in general. He held numerous positions in education, notably at Princeton, the Library of Congress, and the University of Minnesota.

John Orley Allen Tate was one of the Fugitive Group of poets at Vanderbilt University, and contributed an essay to the Agrarian manifesto I'll take my stand. Born near Winchester, Kentucky, Nov. 19, 1899, he graduated from Vanderbilt in 1922. He published many poems, as well as a novel, criticism, and biographies, and taught at the Women's College of the University of North Carolina, Princeton, New York University, and the University of Minnesota, among others. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1950. He died in Nashville, Tennessee, in February 1979.

Allen Tate, American poet, edited THE FUGITIVE (1922), wrote interpretive biographies of Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis, and published numerous collections of poems and literary criticism.

Poet.

John Orley Allen Tate was one of the Fugitive Group of poets at Vanderbilt University, and contributed an essay to the Agrarian manifesto I'll take my stand. Born near Winchester, Kentucky, Nov. 19, 1899, he graduated from Vanderbilt in 1922. He published many poems, as well as a novel, criticism, and biographies, and taught at the Women's College of the University of North Carolina, Princeton, New York University, and the University of Minnesota, among others. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1950. He died in Nashville, Tennessee, in February 1979.

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