Allen Tate

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Allen Tate was an American poet, critic, and leading figure of the Southern Agrarians, known for his formal verse and influential literary essays.

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instanceOf Southern Agrarian
essayist
human
literary critic
poet
professor
awardReceived Bollingen Prize for Poetry
Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters
surface form: National Medal for Literature
birthName John Orley Allen Tate
coAuthorOf I’ll Take My Stand
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1899-11-19
dateOfDeath 1979-02-09
educatedAt Vanderbilt University
familyName Tate
genre essay
literary criticism
poetry
givenName John Orley
influenced New Criticism
surface form: American New Critics
influencedBy John Crowe Ransom
T. S. Eliot
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Fugitive Poets
Southern Agrarians
movement Modernism
New Criticism
Southern Agrarians
notableWork Essays of Four Decades
Ode to the Confederate Dead
Reactionary Essays on Poetry and Ideas
Reason in Madness
The Fathers
occupation editor
essayist
literary critic
poet
teacher
placeOfBirth Winchester, Kentucky
surface form: Winchester, Kentucky, United States
placeOfBurial Sewanee, Tennessee
surface form: Sewanee, Tennessee, United States
placeOfDeath Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
surface form: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
positionHeld Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
editor of The Sewanee Review
religion Roman Catholicism
spouse Caroline Gordon
Isabel Loring
writingStyle formal verse

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