Christopher Benfey

Allen Tate

One of the early-twentieth century Southern intellectuals and artists of the early twentieth century known as the Agrarians, Allen Tate wrote poetry that was rooted strongly in that region's past--in the land, the people, and the traditions of the American South as well as in the forms and concerns of the classic poets. In "Ode to the Confederate Dead"-- generally recognized as his greatest poem--he delineates both the horror of the sight of rows of tombstones at a Confederate cemetery and the honor that such sacrifice embodies, resulting in "a masterpiece that could not be transcended" (William Pratt).

Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Fathers

Edgar Allan Poe

Complete Poetry and Selected Criticism

This classic collection of nearly fifty essays by one of the century's most acclaimed poets and literary critics speaks poignantly to the concerns of today's students, teachers, and general literature readers alike. It covers the broad sweep of Tate's critical concerns: poetry, poets, fiction, the imagination, language, literature, and culture.

Essays of Four Decades

William Troy Selected Essays

Donald Davidson

The Literary Correspondence of Donald Davidson and Allen Tate

Reactionary Essays on Poetry and Ideas

This definitive collection brings together some of Allen Tate's most celebrated poems. With themes ranging from love and loss to politics and identity, these poems continue to captivate readers today. A must-read for anyone interested in modern American poetry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Poems 1922 1947

Article From The Sewanee Review, V61, No. 1, Winter, 1953.

Donne's Virtuous Men

The Point of Dying

Harriet Monroe

A Magazine of Verse

Poetry

Andrew Nelson Lytle

Paul Daniel Binding

This remarkable correspondence between Andrew Lytle & Allen Tate covers nearly four decades & details the lives, friendship, & works of these two of the South's foremost literary figures & their influence upon the shape & direction of American literature.

The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate

The Lytle-Tate Letters

The Good Soldier

Stonewall Jackson

Mr. Pope and Other Poems

"This book differs from other short story anthologies in that it is based on the assumption that fiction is an art closely allied to painting and that, as in painting, there are certain 'constants' or secrets of technique which not only appear in the works of all masters of the craft but which have been handed down from master to master throughout the ages."--Preface.

An Anthology of the Short Story, with Commentary

The House of Fiction

The Fathers is the powerful novel by the poet and critic recognized as one of the great men of letters of our time, Alan Tate. Old Major Buchan of Pleasant Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia, lived by a gentlemen’s agreement to ignore what was base or rude, to live a life which was gentle and comfortable because it was formal. Into this life George Posey came dashing, as Henry Steele Commager observed, “to defy Major Buchan, marry Susan, betray Charles and Semmes, dazzle young Lacy, challenge and destroy the old order of things.” “Great novel of the broken South.”—George Steiner in The New Yorker “A psychological horror story...concerned with life rather than death, with significance rather than with futility.”—Henry Steele Commager “The story displays so much imagination and such a profound reflection upon life that it cannot be neglected by anyone interested in contemporary literature.”—Edwin Muir “A masterpiece of formal beauty...deserves to be recognized as one of the most outstanding novels of our time.”—Janet Adam-Smith in The New Statesmen “It is one of the most remarkable novels of our time...[It] is in fact the novel GONE WITH THE WIND ought to have been.”—Arthur Mizener

The Fathers

Excerpt from A Southern Vanguard: The John Pearle Bishop Memorial Volume This anthology Is composed OF stories, poems, and critical essays oi lered for the John Peale Bishop Memorial Literary Prize Contest con ducted between April I and September I5, 1945, by The Sewanee Re view and Prentice - Hall, Inc. The prizes were awarded as follows: $200 to Andrew Lytle for his story, the guide; $200 to Malcolm Cow. Ley for his essay, william faulkner's legend OF the south; and $100 to Randall Jarrell for his poem, the marci'ien. The judges were Gorham Munson, Editor of the Trade Book Depart ment of prentice-hall, Inc., and myself, who at the time of the contest was Editor of le Sewanee Review. The winning titles and a few Others which are acknowledged elsewhere in this volume, were pub lished in The Servanee Review. Under the conditions Of the contest non - Southern writers were invited to compete for the essay prize, pro vided their subjects were sotithern; the entrants for the fiction and poetry prizes had to be of Southern birth or identified with the South ern States by residence or by interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The John Pearle Bishop Memorial Volume (Classic Reprint)

A Southern Vanguard

The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant, enduring, and influencial works in American literature. But Poe is also the author of some of the most haunting poetry ever written--poems of love, death and loneliness that have lost none of their power to enthrall in this unique Signet Classic edition.

The Complete Poetry and Selected Criticism of Edgar Allan Poe

Mark Van Doren

Huntington Cairns

Invitation to Learning

Written early in Tate's career, this study of the Confederacy's fallen leader is highly critical of his flaws yet ultimately sympathetic to the Southern cause.

His Rise and Fall

Jefferson Davis

Cleanth Brooks

Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

A collection of letters exchanged by two of the 20th century's most distinguished literary figures, depicting their remarkable professional and personal relationship over the years. They respond to the writings and activities of writers including T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Robert Lowell, and offer insight into the group dynamics of the Agrarians, the community of Southern writers who played an influential role in the literature of modernism. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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