Male : Poet, novelist, and critic. Married Caroline Gordon, a novelist, in 1924, Isabella Gardner (poet) in 1959, & Helen Heinz in 1966

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Winchester, Kentucky

Date of Birth : 1899 Date of Death : 1979 Age : 80

Other Work : Professor of English at University of Minnesota 1951-68

Education : Educated Privately & Vanderbilt University

1923-1930
The Golden Mean & Other Poems (1923) - with Ridley Wills
Mr Pope and Other Poems (1928 Minton, Balch NY)
Offered in 1999 for £365
Stonewall Jackson : The Good Soldier - A Narrative (1928 Minton)
(Ed) Fugitive : An Anthology of Verse (1928) - et al
Jefferson Davies : His Rise and Fall - A Biographical Narrative (1929)
Three Poems (1930)
Ode to the Confederate Dead (1930)

1931-1940
Robert E Lee (1932)
Poems 1928-31 (1932 London)
Reactionary Essays on Poetry and Ideas (1936)
(Ed) Who Owns America ? A New Declaration of Independence (1936) - with Herbert Agar
The Mediterranean and Other Poems (1936)
Selected Poems (1937)
The Fathers (1938 Putnam) - novel
(Ed) America Through the Essay : An Anthology for English Courses (1938)
- with A Theodore Johnson

1941-1950
Reason In Madness : Critical Essays (1941 Putnam)
Sonnets at Christmas (1941 Cummington Press)
Invitation to Learning (1941) - with Huntington Cairns and Mark Van Doren
(Ed) The Language of Poetry (1942)
(Ed) Princeton Verse Between Two Wars : An Anthology (1942)
(Ed) American Harvest : Twenty Years of Creative Writing in the United States (1942)
- with John Peale Bishop
(Ed) Recent American Poetry and Poetic Criticism : A Selected List of References (1943)
(Trans) The Vigil of Venus (1943)
Sixty American Poets 1896-1944 : A Preliminary Checklist (1945)
The Winter Sea : A Book of Poems (1945)
Poems 1920-45 : A Selection (1947 Eyre & Spottiswoode 12/6)
(Ed) A Southern Vanguard (1947)
(Ed) The Collected Poems of John Peale Bishop (1948)
Poems 1922-47 (1948 Scribner)
On the Limits of Poetry : Selected Essays 1928-48 (1948 Swallow Press)
The Hovering Fly & Other Essays (1949)
(Ed) The House of Fiction : Anthology of the Short Story (1950) - with Caroline Gordon
Two Conceits for the Eye to Sing, if Possible (1950 Cummington Press) - 300

1951-1960
The Forlorn Demon : Didactic and Critical Essays (1953 Regnery, Chicago)
The Man of Letters in the Modern World : Selected Essays 1928-1955 (1955)
(1957 Thames & Hudson 12/6)
(Ed) Modern Verse in English 1900-1950 (1958) - with Lord David Cecil
Collected Essays (1959 Alan Swallow, Denver)
(Ed) The Arts of Learning (1960) - et al
(Ed) Selected Poems of John Peale Bishop (1960)
Poems (1960)

1961 Onwards
(Ed) Selected Poems by Denis Devlin (1963) - with Robert Penn Warren
(Ed) T S Eliot : The Man and His Work (1966)
(Ed) The Complete Poems and Selected Criticism of Edgar Allan Poe (1968)
Essays of Four Decades (1969) (1970 OUP)
Modern Literature and the Lost Traveller (1969)
The Swimmers & Other Selected Poems (1970 Scribner) (1970 OUP 30/-)
The Translation of Poetry (1972)
(Ed) Six American Poets : From Emily Dickinson to the Present (1972)
The Literary Correspondence of Donald Davidson and Tate (1974)
Memoirs and Opinions 1926-1974 (1975)
The Fathers and Other Fiction (1976)
Memories and Essays : Old and New (1976 Carcanet)
Collected Poems 1919-1976 (1977)

READING
M K Meiners : The Last Alternatives - A Study of the Works of Tate (1963)
George Hemphill : Allen Tate (1964)
Ferman Bishop : Allen Tate (1964)
Marshal Falwell Jr. : Allen Tate - A Bibliography (1969 NY)
Radcliffe Squires : Allen Tate - A Literary Biography (1971)
(Ed) Radcliffe Squires : Allen and His Work - Critical Evaluations (1972 Minnesota UP)