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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
The Catholic University of America Press,
[2016]
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| Summary: | "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 effort to understand the Modernist's sense of the "dissociated sensibility, and that in his conversion to Catholicism, he found the means of rediscovering unified existence" -- |
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| Item Description: | Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation (University of Mississippi, 2009). |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 372 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780813228631 0813228638 |