biography
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Tate, (John Orley) Allen
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1979)
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| biography:
| Man of letters, born in Winchester, Kentucky, USA. As a student at Vanderbilt University, he joined the Fugitive group of Southern writers and later became the pre-eminent representative of the Southern Agrarian school. Best remembered for measured, classical poems such as his well-known ‘Ode to the Confederate Dead’ (he won the Bollingen poetry prize in 1956), he was also a prominent New Critic, an essayist, and the teacher of John Berryman and Theodore Roethke, among many others. He was married (1924–59) to the novelist Caroline Gordon. |
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