Memoirs and Opinions, 1926-1974

by Tate, Allen

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First edition

Chicago, IL: The Swallow Press Inc, 1975. First edition [stated]. First printng [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Small sticker stain on rear board. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. xi, [1] 225, [3 ]p. Acknowledgements. Index. From Wikipedia: Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944. Tate was born near Winchester, Kentucky to John Orley Tate, a businessman, and Eleanor Parke Custis Varnell. In 1916 and 1917 Tate studied the violin at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He began attending Vanderbilt University in 1918, where he met fellow poet Robert Penn Warren. Warren and Tate were invited to join a group of young Southern poets under the leadership of John Crowe Ransom; the group were known as the Fugitive Poets and later as the Southern Agrarians. Tate contributed to the group s magazine The Fugitive and to the agrarian manifesto I ll Take My Stand published in 1930, and this was followed in 1938 by Who Owns America? Tate also joined Ransom to teach at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Some of his notable students there included the poets Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrell. Lowell s early poetry was particularly influenced by Tate s formalist brand of Modernism. In 1924, Tate moved to New York City where he met poet Hart Crane, with whom he had been exchanging correspondence for some time. Over a four-ye

• Publisher: The Swallow Press Inc
• Year: 1975
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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