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John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1943 - 1944. Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress is appointed by the United States Librarian of Congress and earns a stipend of $35000 a year

Allen Tate was born near Winchester, Kentucky the son of John Orley Tate, a businessman, and Eleanor Parke Custis Varnell. Winchester is a city in and the County seat of Clark County, Kentucky, United States. In 1916 and 1917 Tate studied the violin at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was a Conservatory, part of a girls' Finishing school, founded in 1867 in Cincinnati Ohio.

Tate began attending Vanderbilt University in 1918 where he met fellow poet Robert Penn Warren. Vanderbilt University is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in Nashville, Tennessee, Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Robert Penn Warren (April 24 1905 &ndash September 15 1989 was an American poet Novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. Warren and Tate were invited to join a group of young Southern poets under the leadership of John Crowe Ransom known as the Fugitive Poets and later as the Southern Agrarians. John Crowe Ransom ( April 30, 1888, Pulaski Tennessee - July 3, 1974, Gambier Ohio) was an American Poet The Fugitives were a group of poets and literary scholars who came together at Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee around 1920 The Southern Agrarians (also known as the Vanderbilt Agrarians or Nashville Agrarians) were a group of twelve American writers and poets with roots in the Tate contributed to the group's magazine The Fugitive and to the agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand published in 1930. Agrarianism is a social and Political philosophy which stresses the viewpoint that the cultivation of plants or Farming leads to a fuller and happier life Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Tate also joined Ransom to teach at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of the The Episcopal Church Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads

In 1924 Tate moved to New York City where he met Hart Crane, with whom he had been exchanging correspondence for some time. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York Harold Hart Crane ( July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American Poet. During a summer visit with Warren in Kentucky, he began a relationship with Caroline Gordon, whom he married in New York in May 1925. The Commonwealth of Kentucky ( is a state located in the East Central United States of America. Caroline Ferguson Gordon ( October 6[[ 895]]&mdash April 11[[ 981]] was a notable American novelist and literary critic who while still in her thirties Their daughter, Nancy, was born in September. He and Gordon were divorced in 1945 and remarried in 1946. Though devoted to one another for life they could not get along, and Tate married the poet Isabella Gardner in the early fifties. While teaching at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis he met Helen Heinz, a nun enrolled in one of his courses, and began an affair with her. Gardner divorced Tate and he married Heinz in 1966. They moved to Sewanee, Tennessee. Sewanee is an unincorporated town in Franklin County, Tennessee, United States, treated by the U In 1967 Tate became the father of twin sons, John and Michael. Michael died at eleven months from choking on a toy while left in the care of a babysitter. A third son Benjamin was born in 1969.

In 1924, Tate began a four-year sojourn in New York City where he worked freelance for the The Nation, contributed to the Hound and Horn, Poetry magazine, and others. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York This article is about the US Publication. For other newspapers magazines and alternate uses by the same name see The Nation (disambiguation. Poetry, published in Chicago Illinois since 1912 is one of the leading monthly Poetry journals in the English-speaking world He worked as a janitor, and lived la vie boheme in Greenwich Village with Caroline Gordon, and when urban life proved too overwhelming, repaired to "Robber Rocks", a house in Patterson, New York, with friends Slater Brown and his wife Sue, Hart Crane, and Malcolm Cowley. Patterson is a Town in Putnam County, New York, United States. He would, some years later, contribute to the conservative National Review as well. National Review ( NR) is a biweekly Magazine and Web site, founded by the late author William F

1928 saw the publication of Tate's most famous poem "Ode To the Confederate Dead," which reveals many striking similarities--if not outright borrowings--to the poem "Ode to the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery" written by Civil War poet and South Carolina native, Henry Timrod. Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. South Carolina ( is a state in the southern region ( Deep South) of the United States of America. Henry Timrod (December 8 1828 - October 7 1867 was an American poet who is often called The Poet Laureate of the Confederacy. In 1928, Tate also published a biography Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier. A biography (from the Greek words bíos (βίος meaning "life" and gráphein (γράφειν meaning "to write" is an account

In 1929 Tate published a second biography Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jefferson Finis Davis ( June 3, 1808 &ndash December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as President of the

The 1930s found Tate back in Tennessee working on social commentary influenced by his agrarian philosophy. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. Tennessee ( is a state located in the Southern United States. Agrarianism is a social and Political philosophy which stresses the viewpoint that the cultivation of plants or Farming leads to a fuller and happier life In addition to his work on I'll Take My Stand he published Who Owns America? which was a conservative response to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Conservatism is a term used to describe political philosophies that favour Tradition, where tradition refers to various religious cultural or nationally defined The New Deal was the name that United States President Franklin D During this time Tate also became the de facto associate editor of The American Review, which was published and edited by the fascist Seward Collins. The American Review has served as the title of three distinct Magazines 19th century See also American Review A Whig Journal Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology Seward Bishop Collins ( April 22, 1899 &ndash December 8, 1952) was an American New York socialite and Publisher. Tate saw The American Review as an organ for popularizing the work of the Southern Agrarians, but he objected to Collins's open support of Mussolini and Hitler and condemned fascism in an article in The New Republic in 1936. The American Review has served as the title of three distinct Magazines 19th century See also American Review A Whig Journal The Southern Agrarians (also known as the Vanderbilt Agrarians or Nashville Agrarians) were a group of twelve American writers and poets with roots in the Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology The New Republic ( TNR) is an American Magazine of politics and the arts Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

In 1938 Tate published his only novel The Fathers which drew upon the knowledge of his mother's ancestral home in Fairfax County, Virginia. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Fairfax County is a county in Northern Virginia, in the United States.

Tate was a poet in residence at Princeton University until 1942. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. He founded the Creative Writing program at Princeton, and mentored Richard Blackmur, John Berryman and others. In 1942, Tate assisted novelist and friend Andrew Lytle in transforming The Sewanee Review, America's oldest literary quarterly, from a modest journal into one of the most prestigious in the nation. Andrew Nelson Lytle (December 26 1902 – December 12 1995) was an American novelist dramatist essayist and professor of literature The Sewanee Review is a Literary magazine and Academic journal founded in 1892 and the oldest continuously published periodical of its kind in the Tate and Lytle attended Vanderbilt together prior to collaborating at The University of the South. The University of the South is a private Coeducational liberal arts college located in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Tate died in Nashville, Tennessee. Tennessee ( is a state located in the Southern United States. Tate's papers are at the Firestone Library at Princeton University. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey.

Selected works

Poetry

Prose

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