Allen Tate: Orphan of the South

by Thomas A. Underwood

Book Overview

Despite his celebrity and his fame, a series of literary feuds and the huge volume of sources have, until now, precluded a satisfying biography of Allen Tate. Anyone interested in the literature and history of the American South, or in modern letters, will be fascinated by his life. Poetry readers recognize Tate, whom T. S. Eliot once called the best poet writing in America, as the author of some of the twentieth century's most powerful modernist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691069506
• ISBN13: 9780691069500
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.3"