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Poet Allen Tate 1899–1979
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
SCHOOL / PERIOD Fugitive
Subjects Living, Separation & Divorce, Relationships, Love, Nature, The Body
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Allen Tate was a well-known man of letters from the American South, a central figure in the fields of poetry, criticism, and ideas. In the course of a career spanning the middle decades of the twentieth century, Tate authored poems, essays, translations, and fiction. Dictionary of Literary Biography contributor James T. Jones wrote that his "influence was prodigious, his circle of acquaintances immense." Tate relished his "man . . .
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SUBJECT Living, Separation & Divorce, Relationships, Love, Nature, The Body
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
SCHOOL / PERIOD Fugitive
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
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Essential American Poets: Allen Tate: Essential American Poets
