Allen Tate (1899-1979) was an American poet and one of the leading talents among the Southern writers’ group known as the Fugitives, which was founded in 1919-1920 and included John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren. Greatly influenced by T.S. Eliot and the Modernist movement in literature in general, Tate brought to the Fugitive movement — and through this group, to the wider world — a modern sensitivity tempered by classical erudition that informed his attempts through his creative work to restore and celebrate all that was good and noble in Southern culture and history. He was poet laureate of the United States from 1943-1944, and was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry for 1956.
Allen Tate (1899-1979) was an American poet and one of the leading talents among the Southern writers’ group known as the Fugitives, which was founded in 1919-1920 and included John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren. Greatly influenced by T.S. Eliot and the Modernist movement in literature in general, Tate brought to the Fugitive movement — and through this group, to the wider world — a modern sensitivity tempered by classical erudition that informed his attempts through his creative work to restore and celebrate all that was good and noble in Southern culture and history. He was poet laureate of the United States from 1943-1944, and was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry for 1956.
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