Allen Tate
Poet
1899-11-19 – 1979-02-09
Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, and critic associated with the Southern Agrarians and New Criticism. He wrote poetry, fiction, and literary criticism influential in twentieth-century American letters. He died in 1979.
Quotes by Allen Tate
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Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
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For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
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