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Essays Of Four Decades
''Essays of Four Decades'' is a 1967 essay collection by the American writer Allen Tate. It is divided into five sections. The first consists on texts about modern poetry in general. The second focuses on individual writers, including John Donne, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, W. B. Yeats, Hart Crane, Ezra Pound and Herbert Read. The third consists of essays about imagination and critical reception. The fourth is about the Southern United States The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South) is List of regions of the United States, census regions defined by the United States Cens .... The fifth consists of prefaces to some of Tate's previous books. Contents The book consists of the following texts. I * "The Man of Letters in the Modern World" * "To Whom Is the Poet Responsible?" * "Is Literary Criticism Possible?" * "The Function of the Critical Quarterly" * "Tension in ...
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Allen Tate
John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979), known professionally as Allen Tate, was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and poet laureate from 1943 to 1944. Among his best known works are the poems " Ode to the Confederate Dead" (1928) and " The Mediterranean" (1933), and his only novel '' The Fathers'' (1938). He is associated with New Criticism, the Fugitives and the Southern Agrarians. Life Early years Tate was born near Winchester, Kentucky, to John Orley Tate, a Kentucky businessman and Eleanor Parke Custis Varnell from Virginia. On the Bogan side of her grandmother's family, Eleanor Varnell was a distant relative of George Washington; she left Tate a copper luster pitcher that Washington had ordered from London for his sister. In 1916 and 1917 Tate studied the violin at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. College and the Fugitives Tate entered Vanderbilt University in 1918. He was the first undergraduate to be invited to join a g ...
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New Oxford Review
The ''New Oxford Review'' (NOR) is a magazine of traditionalist Catholic cultural and theological commentary.Ronald Lora, William Henry Longton, ''The conservative press in twentieth-century America'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999, p. 20/ref>Mary Jo Weaver, ''Being right: conservative Catholics in America'', Indiana University Press, 1995, p. 34/ref> It was founded in 1977 by the American Church Union as an Anglo-Catholic magazine in the Anglican tradition to replace '' American Church News''. It was named for the Oxford Movement of the 1830s and 1840s. In 1983, it officially " converted" to Catholicism. During its earlier history, the magazine championed Pope John Paul II's condemnation of the dissenting Catholic theologian Hans Küng. It supported Bernard Francis Law in his condemnation of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative. In 2006, George A. Kendall, writing in the conservative Catholic newspaper '' The Wanderer'', questioned the Catholicity of the ''NOR'' based on w ...
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Books Of Literary Criticism
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Swallow Press Books
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