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This study reconsiders and reassesses the work of Allen Tate as a poet whose themes and expression place him among the most studied and canonical Modernists of the last century. Allen Tate (1899-1979), a former Poet Laureate of the US, although generally regarded during his lifetime as one of the twentieth century's preeminent literary critics and men of letters, has been largely overlooked by critics in the years since his death. John V. Glass III rectifies this by tracing the development of Tate's thought and verse from his early years as a student at Vanderbilt in the 1920s through his final terza-rima sequence completed in the 1950s. Tate's poetry in the intervening years charts the course of an American modernist who brings to bear on the problems of his age the unique perspective of a southerner, one who refuses either to accept sentimentality or to repudiate the past in his search for a solution to the dissociation of sensibility.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xi-xiv
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xv-xvi
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  1. List of Abbreviations
  2. pp. xvii-xviii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-10
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  1. 1. A Setting Forth: The Value of Allen Tate’s Poetry and Thought, Its Current Place, and Its Context
  2. pp. 11-28
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  1. 2. The Irrefrangibly Complicated Study: Toward the Conception and Presentation of the Modern Mind
  2. pp. 29-75
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  1. 3. The Genuine Attitude for Learning: The Modern Southerner at Home Abroad and the “Death of Little Boys”
  2. pp. 76-116
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  1. 4. Classicism, Modernism, and the Confederate Dead: The Modern Mind at the Gates and at the Bank
  2. pp. 117-148
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  1. 5. “Remarks on the Southern Religion”: Toward the Means, the Ends, and the Violence
  2. pp. 149-177
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  1. 6. Six Poems: From Crisis toward Belief and the Fullness of History
  2. pp. 178-230
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  1. 7. Out of Silence and into Silence: “Seasons of the Soul” and the Ends of Language
  2. pp. 231-276
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  1. 8. The Last Things: Toward the Irrepressible Conflict
  2. pp. 277-354
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 355-360
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  1. Index of Tate’s Writings
  2. pp. 361-364
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  1. General Index
  2. pp. 365-372
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