Tate, [John Orley] Allen
Tate, [John Orley] Allen( 1899–1979),Tennessee author, began his career as an editor of The Fugitive (1922) and also showed interest in regionalism through his contributions to the symposia I'll Take My Stand (1930), The Critique of Humanism (1930), and Who Owns America? (1936), and in his interpretive biographies of Stonewall Jackson (1928) and Jefferson Davis (1929). He is best known for his poems, published in Mr. Pope and Other Poems (1928), Three Poems (1930), Poems, 1928–1931 (1932), The Mediterranean and Other Poems (1936), Selected Poems (1937), Winter Sea (1944), Poems, 1922–1947 (1948), The Swimmers (1971), and Collected Poems (1977).
His metaphysical poetry is distinguished by a neoclassical polish and satire, achieving sharp contrasts through use of archaisms verging on the baroque. He described his technique as “gradually circling round...
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