Allen Tate

Allen Tate (1899–1979) was one of the leading writers of the South in the twentieth century. As a member of the Fugitive Poets and the Southern Agrarian movement, through his poetry and essays, he championed a return to the South's agrarian roots and the use of formal techniques in poetry. He served as consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress in 1943 and was editor of the Sewanee Review from 1944 to 1947. In addition he taught at numerous universities, including Princeton University, New York University, and the University of Minnesota.

Published in VQR

• A Sequence of Stanzas: Compiled and Read to A Group of Friends on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday, Novemb, Spring 1975
• A Note on Paul Valéry, Summer 1970
• Faulkner’s “Sanctuary” and the Southern Myth, Summer 1968
• The New Provincialism: With an Epilogue on the Southern Novel, Spring 1945
• Narcissus as Narcissus, Winter 1938
• Light Interval, Winter 1936
• To the Romantic Traditionists, Spring 1935
• The Profession of Letters in the South, Spring 1935
• The Oath, Spring 1931
• The Two Horsemen, Winter 1931
• Idyl, Summer 1928
• Idiot, Summer 1927