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...there are 400 things that London's progressive Tate Gallery can't abide, they are the pictures and sculptures that for the past 52 years have been drifting in from the bequest of wealthy Victorian Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey. In that time, the unhappy custodians of the Tate have willy-nilly acquired tons and acres of lowing kine, rearing horses, languorous ladies, idyllic landscapes and storm-beset ships-of-the-line...
Except for about 30 pieces (including an Epstein bust and a sprinkling of Pre-Raphaelites), the Tate has resolutely packed them off to the cellar. That, says the gallery's pastel-shirted Director John Rothenstein, is where they belong...
Every other Saturday night, a little circle of up-&-coming poets got together in a Nashville parlor to bandy verses. The natural leader of the group was a courtly young (33) instructor of English at Vanderbilt University, John Crowe Ransom. Allen Tate, who was one of that group in the early '20s, has said: "There was never so much talent, knowledge and character accidentally brought together in one American place in our time." Some of them: Robert Penn Warren, Laura Riding, Donald Davidson, Merrill Moore...
Ransom's students have learned that he expects to be treated only as "one gentleman among others." Says Tate: "I think he was a great teacher by not being...
...Among U.S. poets and critics who will teach at Kenyon's new School of English during the next three summers: Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell, Cleanth Brooks, Lionel Trilling, William Empson, Matthiessen, R. P. Blackmur, Yvor Winters...