Allen Tate

John Orley Allen Tate ( born November 19, 1899 in Winchester, Kentucky; † 9 February 1979 in Nashville, Tennessee) was an American writer, poet, literary critic and university teacher.

Life

The son of a businessman, studied post-school, first from 1916 to 1917 at the College - Conservatory of Music Cincinnati, before he later at Vanderbilt University study completed, which he finished in 1923. There he joined the " The Fugitives " said group of poets around his Professor John Crowe Ransom at.

His literary debut came in 1928 with the poetry collection Mr. Pope and Other Poems and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In the following years he published biographies of Thomas Jonathan Jackson entitled Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier (1928 ) and Jefferson Davis with the title Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall (1929 ), before he with I'll Take My Stand ( 1930) and Poems: 1928-1931 (1932 ) two other books of poetry published.

In 1934 he accepted a professorship at Southwestern College and also taught at times even at Woman's College, University of North Carolina and 1939-1942 at Princeton University.

After the two other books of poetry, The Mediterranean and Other Poems (1936) and Selected Poems (1937 ) appeared with The Fathers ( 1938), his first and only novel at the same time. Tate was also from 1943 to 1944 Consultant of the Library of Congress of Poetry (Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress).

After working for two years 1944-1946 as a literary critic of The Sewanee Review editor in 1948 he published a first volume of his essays entitled On the Limits of Poetry: Selected Essays, 1928-1948 (1948 ), making it one of the leading representatives of the New Criticism was, and the poetry collection Poems, 1922-1947 (1948 ).

In 1953 appeared The Forlorn Demon: Didactic and Critical Essays (1953), another collection of essays, before the Bollingen Prize in Poetry got 1957.

After completing his teaching at the University of Minnesota published after the collection of essays Essays of Four Decades (1969 ) nor the two volumes of poetry The Swimmers and Other Selected Poems (1971) and Collected Poems (1977).

External links and sources

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary, pp. 1475, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2

Background literature

• Author
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Literature (United States)
• University teachers ( Princeton University)
• University teachers ( University of Minnesota)
• Americans
• Born in 1899
• Died in 1979
• Man
• Guggenheim Fellow
• Poet Laureate (United States)