John 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. Read full biography of Allen Tate →
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not... →
For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a... →
The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!
Men expect too much, do too little.
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do... →
Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are... →
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything... →
I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without... →
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not... →
The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the... →
John 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.