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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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About Allen Tate

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.

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