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For when they meet, the tensile air
Like fine steel strains under the weight
Of messages that both hearts bear—
Pure passion once, now purest hate.... - Allen Tate Attribution: Allen Tate (1899–1979), U.S. poet, critic. “The Paradigm.”

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Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Allen Tate is born
• John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and other members of “the Fugitives” school of American poetry publish the quarterly journal The Fugitive in Nashville
• Allen Tate publishes Ode to the Confederate Dead
• “Twelve Southerners,” whose number includes John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, publish I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition
• Allen Tate publishes The Fathers
• Allen Tate dies