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Allen Tate : Orphan of the South / Thomas A. Underwood.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (456 p.) : 22 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691228280
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818 21
LOC classification:
  • PS3539.A74
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction "My Terrible Family" -- Chapter One: "Mother Wanted Me at Home" -- Chapter Two: "Unlike a Natural Mother" -- Chapter Three: "O Poet, O Allen Tate, O Hot Youth!" -- Chapter Four: "They Used to Call Me 'the Yankee' " -- Chapter Five: God the Father and the South -- Chapter Six An Agrarian and "the Brethren" -- Chapter Seven: Orphan of the South -- Chapter Eight: Fatherless Fame -- Chapter Nine: A Family Reconstructed -- A Note on the Text and Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes -- Sources and Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Despite his celebrity and his fame, a series of literary feuds and the huge volume of sources have, until now, precluded a satisfying biography of Allen Tate. Anyone interested in the literature and history of the American South, or in modern letters, will be fascinated by his life. Poetry readers recognize Tate, whom T. S. Eliot once called the best poet writing in America, as the author of some of the twentieth century's most powerful modernist verse. Others know him as a founder of The Fugitive, the first significant poetry journal to emerge from the South. Tate joined William Faulkner and others in launching what came to be known as the Southern Literary Renaissance. In 1930, he became a leader of the Southern Agrarian movement, perhaps America's final potent critique of industrial capitalism. By 1938, Tate had departed politics and written The Fathers, a critically acclaimed novel about the dissolution of the antebellum South. He went on to earn almost every honor available to an American poet. His fatherly mentoring of younger poets, from Robert Penn Warren to Robert Lowell, and of southern novelists--including his first wife, Caroline Gordon--elicited as much rebellion as it did loyalty. Long-awaited and based on the author's unprecedented access to Tate's personal papers and surviving relatives, Orphan of the South brings Tate to 1938. It explores his attempt, first through politics and then through art, to reconcile his fierce talent and ambition with the painful history of his family and of the South. Tate was subjected to, and also perpetuated, fictional interpretations of his ancestry. He alternately abandoned and championed Southern culture. Viewing himself as an orphan from a region where family history is identity, he developed a curious blend of spiritual loneliness and ideological assuredness. His greatest challenge was transforming his troubled genealogy into a meaningful statement about himself and Southern culture as a whole. It was this problem that consumed Tate for the first half of his life, the years recorded here. This portrait of a man who both made and endured American literary history depicts the South through the story of one of its treasured, ambivalent, and sometimes wayward sons. Readers will gain a fertile understanding of the Southern upbringing, education, and literary battles that produced the brilliant poet who was Allen Tate.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction "My Terrible Family" -- Chapter One: "Mother Wanted Me at Home" -- Chapter Two: "Unlike a Natural Mother" -- Chapter Three: "O Poet, O Allen Tate, O Hot Youth!" -- Chapter Four: "They Used to Call Me 'the Yankee' " -- Chapter Five: God the Father and the South -- Chapter Six An Agrarian and "the Brethren" -- Chapter Seven: Orphan of the South -- Chapter Eight: Fatherless Fame -- Chapter Nine: A Family Reconstructed -- A Note on the Text and Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes -- Sources and Acknowledgments -- Index

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Despite his celebrity and his fame, a series of literary feuds and the huge volume of sources have, until now, precluded a satisfying biography of Allen Tate. Anyone interested in the literature and history of the American South, or in modern letters, will be fascinated by his life. Poetry readers recognize Tate, whom T. S. Eliot once called the best poet writing in America, as the author of some of the twentieth century's most powerful modernist verse. Others know him as a founder of The Fugitive, the first significant poetry journal to emerge from the South. Tate joined William Faulkner and others in launching what came to be known as the Southern Literary Renaissance. In 1930, he became a leader of the Southern Agrarian movement, perhaps America's final potent critique of industrial capitalism. By 1938, Tate had departed politics and written The Fathers, a critically acclaimed novel about the dissolution of the antebellum South. He went on to earn almost every honor available to an American poet. His fatherly mentoring of younger poets, from Robert Penn Warren to Robert Lowell, and of southern novelists--including his first wife, Caroline Gordon--elicited as much rebellion as it did loyalty. Long-awaited and based on the author's unprecedented access to Tate's personal papers and surviving relatives, Orphan of the South brings Tate to 1938. It explores his attempt, first through politics and then through art, to reconcile his fierce talent and ambition with the painful history of his family and of the South. Tate was subjected to, and also perpetuated, fictional interpretations of his ancestry. He alternately abandoned and championed Southern culture. Viewing himself as an orphan from a region where family history is identity, he developed a curious blend of spiritual loneliness and ideological assuredness. His greatest challenge was transforming his troubled genealogy into a meaningful statement about himself and Southern culture as a whole. It was this problem that consumed Tate for the first half of his life, the years recorded here. This portrait of a man who both made and endured American literary history depicts the South through the story of one of its treasured, ambivalent, and sometimes wayward sons. Readers will gain a fertile understanding of the Southern upbringing, education, and literary battles that produced the brilliant poet who was Allen Tate.

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In English.

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