Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impresses her by flattening a tough guy (Allen Jenkins), wins another bout at a truck drivers' picnic, goes to work as a mechanic, conducts a merry courtship while Grandma Wicks and the nation's police beat the bushes for him. Set-tos with such surrealities as mad Poet Killigrew Shawe (Hugh Herbert) and the truckmen give Gerald's education the final polish. He goes home, gives tyrannical Grandma Wicks a piece of his mind, decides that Mona knows best...
Tate. "As a poet, I have never had any experience . . . as a poet, my concern is the experience that I hope the reader will have in reading the poem. The poet as seer who experiences life in behalf of the population is a picture that is not clear in my mind, but it is an interesting picture; it happens to be one with which I have no sympathy at all." So does Poet Allen Tate of Tennessee, with a schoolmasterish delight in heckling his audience, conclude the preface to his Selected Poems. These poems, true to their foreword, dish...
...some ears will be Author Tate's attempts, in many of his poems, to catch the tone of T. S. Eliot's latter-day concord of sourness and light. But in the presentation of his central themes, the Civil War and life's mortal idiocy, Poet Tate, verging in his later poems on the first-rate, speaks in his own tones...
Serving modestly on the general staff headed by her husband, Poet-Critic Allen Tate (see p. 81), Kentucky-born Caroline Gordon belongs to that well-educated guerrilla band of Southern regionalists who about a decade ago took up where the Confederate Army left off in its fight against the Yankee cultural and economic invasion. Chief sallies have consisted of nostalgic biographies, fiction and poetry celebrating the feudal charm of the Old South, collective manifestoes (I Take My Stand) advocating return to an agrarian economy, magazines (The Southern Review et al.) and poetry societies whose interests are about equally divided between...
...Moore sought preferment wherever he could get it, consorted with the lords and ladies, whose power his poetry was attacking, that was no more than the gracefully graceless way of the times he lived in. If he ran from the battles he fomented, that was because he was a poet, not a man of action. And if his poetry "glows at no great heat," seems largely facile and sentimental now, it had a quality, incommunicable to present ears, which made the Irish take it passionately to their hearts, and so furthered the cause of Nationalism that was his one enduring...