Allen Tate

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

Life

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

He made his literary debut in 1928 with the collection of poems Mr. Pope and Other Poems , for which he received a Guggenheim grant . In the following years he published biographies by Thomas Jonathan Jackson under the title Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier (1928) and by Jefferson Davis with the title Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall (1929), before he started with Take I'll My Stand ( 1930) and Poems: 1928-1931 (1932) edited two further volumes of poetry. In 1934 he accepted a professorship at Southwestern College and also taught at times at the Woman's College at the University of North Carolina and between 1939 and 1942 at Princeton University . After the two other volumes of poetry, The Mediterranean and Other Poems (1936) and Selected Poems (1937), his first and only novel, The Fathers (1938), was published .

Tate was 1943-1944 adviser to the Library of Congress for poetry ( Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress ). After two years as a literary critic of The Sewanee Review Editor between 1944 and 1946 , he published the first volume of his essays in 1948, entitled On the Limits of Poetry: Selected Essays, 1928-1948 (1948), making him one of the leading exponents of the New Criticism , as well as the collection of poems Poems, 1922-1947 (1948). In 1951, Tate, who had converted to Catholicism in 1950 , was appointed professor at the University of Minnesota and taught there until 1968. In 1953, The Forlorn Demon: Didactic and Critical Essays (1953), another collection of essays, appeared before he in 1957 received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry . In 1949 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1965 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

After completing his teaching activities at the University of Minnesota, the two volumes of poetry The Swimmers and Other Selected Poems (1971) and Collected Poems (1977) were published after the collection of essays Essays of Four Decades (1969 ).

Web links and sources

Background literature

  • G. Hemphill: Allen Tate , 1964

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members: Allen Tate. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Tate, Allen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tate, John Orley Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Winchester (Kentucky)
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1979
Place of death Nashville , Tennessee