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Tate, Allen - Alwyn Berland (essay date summer 1951)

Alwyn Berland (essay date summer 1951)

SOURCE: Berland, Alwyn. “Violence in the Poetry of Allen Tate.” Accent 2, no. 3 (summer 1951): 161-71.

[In the following essay, Berland explores the role of violence in Tate's poetry and finds parallels between his verse and that of John Webster.]

Duchess: I could curse the stars—
Bosola: O, fearful.
Duchess: And those three smiling seasons of the year
                                        Into a Russian winter; nay, the world
                                        To its first chaos.
Bosola: Look you, the stars shine still.
Duchess: O, but you must
                                        Remember, my curse hath a great way to go.

—The Duchess of Malfi

It is no accident that Allen Tate has written on John Webster (“Horatian Epode to The Duchess...

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