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...Allen Tate opened the gathering with an announcement to the audience that "the fiction for this occasion is that you are not present. This is a conversation among ourselves...
Robert Lowell, the second-generation Fugitive, added some humor to the meeting with his "Falling Asleep over the Aeneid," read after a brief exchange with Tate. "When 'Cal' first appeared in Tennessee," Tate reminisced of Lowell, "he thought a mule was a donkey." Lowell pointed his finger at him and charged, "When I first appeared in Tennessee, you thought Emerson was a mule." When the applause and laughter at this remark had died down, Tate looked up quietly and said, "I still...
Elliott assumed the chairmanship, while Tate read his own stirring "Ode to the Confederate Dead...
...nature, harmony, metaphysics." They sought, the critic notes, a "dreamy sentimentalism and provincial elegy." This movement began among students at the University of Tennessee, and included, along with Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Laura Riding, Merrill Moore, Sidney Metron Hirsch, and--familiar to members of the Summer School--Allen Tate and William Yandell Elliott...
Shakespeare's own native England was in no hurry to serve him properly; and for generations the plays were offered in the "improved" versions of Nahum Tate, Colley Cibber, Thomas Shadwell, David Garrick and the like...