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Collected Poems, 1919-1976 (FSG Classics)

Collected Poems, 1919-1976 (FSG Classics)
By Allen Tate

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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). 

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #909395 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-10-16
  • Released on: 2007-10-16
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 240 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
The Flowers Of Evil: A Carrion
The Vigil Of Venus
Adaptation Of A Theme By Catullus
Aeneas At New York
Aeneas At Washington
The Anabasis
The Ancestors
Art
Battle Of Murfreesboro, 1862-1922
Bizarre
Bored To Choresis
Brief Message
The Buried Lake
Calidus Juventa?
Causerie
Cold Pastoral
Correspondences
Credo In Intellectum Videntem
The Cross
Cul-de-sac
Day
Death Of Little Boys
Debt
Ditty
Dusk
Eager Youths To A Dead Girl
The Eagle
Eclogue Of The Liberal And The Poet
Edges
Elegy For Eugenesis
Elegy On Jefferson Davis
Emblems
Euthanasia
The Eye
Fair Cuirass Shattered
Farewell Rehearsed
Farewell To Anactoria
The Flapper
For A Dead Citizen
Fragment Of A Meditation
Historical Epitaphs
Hitch Your Wagon To A Star
Homily
Horatian Epode To The Duchess Of Malfi
Idiot
Idyl
Inside And Outside
Intellectual Detachment
The Ivory Tower
John Milton
Jubilo
Last Days Of Alice
Light
Lityerses
Long Fingers
Lycambes Talks To John (in Hell)
Madness
The Maimed Man
Mary Mcdonald
The Meaning Of Death
The Meaning Of Life
The Mediterranean
Message From Abroad
More Sonnets At Christmas (ten Years Later): 1
More Sonnets At Christmas (ten Years Later): 2
More Sonnets At Christmas (ten Years Later): 3
More Sonnets At Christmas (ten Years Later): 4
Mother And Son
Mr. Pope
Non Omnis Moriar
Nuptials
The Oath
Ode To Fear
Ode To Our Young Pro-consuls Of The Air
Ode To The Confederate Dead
The Paradigm
Parthenia
Pastoral
A Pauper
Perimeters
Previgilium Veneris
Procession
The Progress Of Oenia
Quality Of Mercy
Records
Red Stains
Reflections In An Old House
Resurgam
Retroduction To American History
The Robber Bridegroom
Seasons Of The Soul
Shadow And Shade
Sinbad
Sonnet
Sonnet To Beauty
Sonnets At Christmas: 1
Sonnets At Christmas: 2
Sonnets Of The Blood
Stranger
The Subway
Suicide
Sulpicia To Cerinthus
The Swimmers
Tercets Of The Triad
These Deathy Leaves
To A Prodigal Old Maid
To A Romantic
To A Romantic Novelist
To The Lacedemonians
To The Romantic Traditionists
The Traveller
The Trout Map
True Believer
The Twelve
Two Conceits
Unnatural Love
Vision Beatific
William Blake
Winter Mask
The Wolves
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Review

“Allen Tate is the supreme classicist, the most convincingly grandiloquent orator, of his generation. The rhetoric of his monologues, analyzing the sublime decadence of the moral and political scene, is gloomy, scornful and yet icily aloof. The more philosophical poems tease the reader with ironies of existence and morality. Everywhere is an easy 17th-century formality, sureness with myth, and habit of cadence and judgment…. It is simply important to have Tate again in print, accessible to a couple of generations of readers who probably hardly know him.” 
 –John Fuller, on the hardcover publication of Collected Poems 1919-1976 in 1977

About the Author

Allen Tate (1899-1979) was born in Winchester, Kentucky, and spent much of his adult life teaching  first in the South, then in Minnesota. He is also the author of the novel The Fathers.

Customer Reviews

Tate's Collected Poems5
Allen Tate is one of the finest poets of the 20th Century and it is a pleasure to be able to read his poetry again in the fullest collection to date. There are some signature poems like "The Mediterranean" and "Ode to the Confederate Dead" and "The Swimmers" which would stand out in any collection of Modern Poetry. There are minor masterpieces as well, such as "Death of Little Boys" and "Aeneas in Washington" and "Seasons of the Soul" to which a reader would want to return many times. Just reading Tate's poetry at the present time makes one realize how meagre current poetry is and what greatness lies in the past century.