Allen Tate

Author : Langdon Hammer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400887194
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Hart Crane and Allen Tate written by Langdon Hammer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the vexed friendship between Hart Crane and Allen Tate, this book examines twentieth-century American poetry's progress toward institutional sanction and professional organization, a process in which sexual identities, poetic traditions, and literary occupations were in question and at stake. Langdon Hammer combines biography and formalist analysis to argue that American modernism was a Janus-faced phenomenon, at once emancipatory and elitist, which simultaneously attacked traditional cultural authority and reconstructed it in new forms. Hammer shows how Crane and Tate, working in relation to each other and to T. S. Eliot, created for themselves the competing roles of "genius" and "poet-critic." Crane embraced the self-authorizing powers of the individual talent at the cost of standing outside the emerging consensus of high modernist literary culture, an aesthetic isolation which converged with his social isolation as a gay man. Tate, turning against Crane, linked the modernist defense of tradition to an embattled heterosexual masculinity, while he adapted Eliot's stance to a career sustained by criticism and teaching. Ending his book with a discussion of Robert Lowell's career, Hammer maintains that Lowell's "confessional" poetry recapitulates the conflict enacted by Crane and Tate. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Thomas A. Underwood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228280
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Allen Tate written by Thomas A. Underwood and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his celebrity and his fame, a series of literary feuds and the huge volume of sources have, until now, precluded a satisfying biography of Allen Tate. Anyone interested in the literature and history of the American South, or in modern letters, will be fascinated by his life. Poetry readers recognize Tate, whom T. S. Eliot once called the best poet writing in America, as the author of some of the twentieth century's most powerful modernist verse. Others know him as a founder of The Fugitive, the first significant poetry journal to emerge from the South. Tate joined William Faulkner and others in launching what came to be known as the Southern Literary Renaissance. In 1930, he became a leader of the Southern Agrarian movement, perhaps America's final potent critique of industrial capitalism. By 1938, Tate had departed politics and written The Fathers, a critically acclaimed novel about the dissolution of the antebellum South. He went on to earn almost every honor available to an American poet. His fatherly mentoring of younger poets, from Robert Penn Warren to Robert Lowell, and of southern novelists--including his first wife, Caroline Gordon--elicited as much rebellion as it did loyalty. Long-awaited and based on the author's unprecedented access to Tate's personal papers and surviving relatives, Orphan of the South brings Tate to 1938. It explores his attempt, first through politics and then through art, to reconcile his fierce talent and ambition with the painful history of his family and of the South. Tate was subjected to, and also perpetuated, fictional interpretations of his ancestry. He alternately abandoned and championed Southern culture. Viewing himself as an orphan from a region where family history is identity, he developed a curious blend of spiritual loneliness and ideological assuredness. His greatest challenge was transforming his troubled genealogy into a meaningful statement about himself and Southern culture as a whole. It was this problem that consumed Tate for the first half of his life, the years recorded here. This portrait of a man who both made and endured American literary history depicts the South through the story of one of its treasured, ambivalent, and sometimes wayward sons. Readers will gain a fertile understanding of the Southern upbringing, education, and literary battles that produced the brilliant poet who was Allen Tate.

Author : Allen Tate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Fathers written by Allen Tate and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582436673
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Hidden Wound written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned, thoughtful, and fearless essay on the effects of racism on the American identity by one of our country’s most humane literary voices. Acclaimed as “one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time” (The Village Voice), The Hidden Wound is a book-length essay about racism and the damage it has done to the identity of our country. Through Berry’s personal experience, he explains how remaining passive in the face of the struggle of racism further corrodes America’s great potential. In a quiet and observant manner, Berry opens up about how his attempt to discuss racism is rooted in the hope that someday the historical wound will begin to heal. Pulitzer prize-winning author Larry McMurtry calls this “a profound, passionate, crucial piece of writing . . . Few readers, and I think, no writers will be able to read it without a small pulse of triumph at the temples: the strange, almost communal sense of triumph one feels when someone has written truly well . . . The statement it makes is intricate and beautiful, sad but strong.” “Mr. Berry is a sophisticated, philosophical poet in the line descending from Emerson and Thoreau." ―The Baltimore Sun "[Berry’s poems] shine with the gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life." ―The Christian Science Monitor "Wendell Berry is one of those rare individuals who speaks to us always of responsibility, of the individual cultivation of an active and aware participation in the arts of life." ―The Bloomsbury Review “[Berry’s] poems, novels and essays . . . are probably the most sustained contemporary articulation of America’s agrarian, Jeffersonian ideal.” ―Publishers Weekly

Author : Radcliffe Squires
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452909318
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Allen Tate and His Work written by Radcliffe Squires and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John V. Glass III
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813228638
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Allen Tate written by John V. Glass III and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation (University of Mississippi, 2009).

Author : Allen Tate
Publisher : Intercollegiate Studies Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Essays of Four Decades written by Allen Tate and published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute. This book was released on 1999 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Allen Tate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Swimmers, and Other Selected Poems written by Allen Tate and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allen Tate Wood
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Moonstruck written by Allen Tate Wood and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter A. Huff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Allen Tate and the Catholic Revival written by Peter A. Huff and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the influence of the preconciliar Catholic Literary Revival on the southern literary critic and Catholic convert Allen Tate (1899-1979), examining Tate's attempt to incorporate the Revival's Christian humanism into a distinctive critique of secular industrial society.