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The swimmers, and other selected poems
- GenresPoetry
196 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1971
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Allen Tate
97 books18 followersPoetry of especially known American writer and editor John Orley Allen Tate includes "Ode to the Confederate Dead" (1926); a leading exponent of New Criticism, he edited the Sewanee Review from 1944 to 1946.
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December 5, 2020
You think the dead arise
Westward and fabulous
The dead are those whose lies
Were doors to a narrow house.
The above is sampled from a poem dedicated to Tate's fellow Kentuckian Robert Penn Warren. The idiom is more natural and amongst those selections which I actually liked. The other elements of the book are either neo-classical in structure and obscure in vocabulary or betray a political situation which is at least awkward to approach. Tate is important to a historical analysis of literary criticism but his verse isn't always a pleasure to read.
Westward and fabulous
The dead are those whose lies
Were doors to a narrow house.
The above is sampled from a poem dedicated to Tate's fellow Kentuckian Robert Penn Warren. The idiom is more natural and amongst those selections which I actually liked. The other elements of the book are either neo-classical in structure and obscure in vocabulary or betray a political situation which is at least awkward to approach. Tate is important to a historical analysis of literary criticism but his verse isn't always a pleasure to read.
Displaying 1 of 1 review