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* Allen Tate, ( 1899 – 1979 ), poet associated with the Agrarians, a group of Southern poets and most noted for " Ode to the Confederate Dead "
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Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.
Former Poets: Kay Ryan, Charles Simic, Ted Kooser, Louise Glück, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Karl Shapiro, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, Joseph Brodsky, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Hass, Donald Hall, Robert Pinsky ( three terms ), Mark Strand, Audre Lorde, and Maxine Kumin, among others.
During the early years, the University had among its faculty a number of noted writers, such as Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon,
Eliot in the Theatre: The Director's Memories ", T. S. Eliot-The Man and His Work, Tate, Allen ( ed ), Delta, New York, 1966
" With Becket in Murder in the Cathedral ", T. S. Eliot-The Man and His Work, Tate, Allen ( ed ), Delta, New York, 1966
Among the public collections holding works by Barnett Newman are the Addison Gallery of American Art ( Andover, Massachusetts ), the Allen Memorial Art Museum ( Oberlin College, Ohio ), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Berlin State Museums, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard University Art Museums, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ( Washington D. C .), the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art ( Japan ), Kunstmuseum Basel ( Switzerland ), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Menil Collection ( Houston, Texas ), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ( Madrid ), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art ( New York City ), the Nasher Sculpture Center ( Dallas, Texas ), the Nassau County Museum of Art ( Roslyn Harbor, New York ), the National Gallery of Art ( Washington D. C .), the National Gallery of Canada ( Ottawa ), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Sheldon Museum of Art ( Lincoln, Nebraska ), the Smithsonian American Art Museum ( Washington D. C .), Stedelijk Museum ( Amsterdam ), the Tate Gallery ( London ), the Wadsworth Atheneum ( Hartford, Connecticut ), the Walker Art Center ( Minneapolis, Minnesota ), the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum ( Cologne, Germany ), and the Whitney Museum of American Art ( New York City ).
The Southern Agrarians were based at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and leaders included Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, John Gould Fletcher, Andrew Nelson Lytle, and Donald Davidson.
In 1936, Allen Tate published a critique of fascism in The New Republic to distance the Agrarians from Collins.
Ransom has few peers among 20th century American university teachers of humanities ; his distinguished students included Donald Davidson, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Andrew Lytle, Allen Tate, Peter Taylor, Robie Macauley, Robert Penn Warren, E. L. Doctorow, Cleanth Brooks, Richard M. Weaver, and Constantinos Patrides ( himself a Rhodes Scholar, who dedicated his monograph on John Milton's Lycidas to Ransom's memory ).
At Vanderbilt, Ransom was a founding member of the Fugitives, a Southern literary group of 16 writers that functioned primarily as a kind of poetry workshop and included Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren.
Still, Ransom's former students, specifically Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren, had a greater hand in developing many of the key concepts ( like " close reading ") that later came to define the New Criticism.
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.
Allen and 1899
Caricature from 1899 showing Chicago mayor Carter Harrison, Jr., fighting against the " Allen bill ", signed by Governor John Riley Tanner that gave control of Chicago's intra-city transportation system to Yerkes
The Texas and Pacific acquired additional right-of-way in 1899 to extend the spur from Port Allen to New Roads, Louisiana and beyond to Alexandria, Louisiana.
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen ( February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899 ) was a science writer and novelist, and a successful upholder of the theory of evolution.
After assisting Sir W. W. Hunter in his Gazeteer of India in the early 1880s, Allen turned his attention to fiction, and between 1884 and 1899 produced about 30 novels.
These included John Crowe Ransom ( 1888 – 1974 ), Allen Tate ( 1899 – 1979 ), and Robert Penn Warren ( 1905 – 1989 ).
After leaving Congress, Allen resumed the practice of law and was a member of the State board of agriculture 1897-1903 and was again mayor of Ypsilanti in 1899 and 1900.
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