Allen Tate : the modern mind and the discovery of enduring love /
"This book reassesses the importance of Allen Tate (1899-1976), a former U.S. Poet Laureate, as a uniquely Southern and fundamentally religious poet and a critic. Through close analysis of Tate's essays and poems, the author argues that the arc of Tate's career presents a coherent eff...
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Washington, D.C. :
The Catholic University of America Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- A setting forth: the value of Allen Tate's poetry and thought, its current place and its context
- The irrefrangibly complicated study: toward the conception and presentation of the modern mind
- The genuine attitude for learning: the modern Southerner at home abroad and the "Death of Little Boys"
- Classicism, modernism, and the Confederate dead: the modern mind at the gates and the bank
- "Remarks on the Southern religion": toward the means, the ends, and the violence
- Six poems: from crisis toward belief and the fullness of history
- Out of silence and into silence: "Seasons of the Soul" and the ends of language
- The last things: toward the irrepressible conflict.