Collected Poems, 1919-1976 : 1976
(2014)
Nonfiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781466884977 MWT16168387, 1466884975 16168387
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
One of the early-twentieth century Southern intellectuals and artists of the early twentieth century known as the Agrarians, Allen Tate wrote poetry that was rooted strongly in that region's past, in the land, the people, and the traditions of the American South as well as in the forms and concerns of the classic poets. In "Ode to the Confederate Dead"- generally recognized as his greatest poem-he delineates both the horror of the sight of rows of tombstones at a Confederate cemetery and the honor that such sacrifice embodies
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