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SELECTED POEMS-Allen Tate-Scribner...
...starvation rations to work out a poetry that presents pinched versions of reality recognizable to other protestant Americans. Still others, fed up with starvation, if not with protest, chew on the stringent cud of their inner man. Among U. S. poets who chew nutritious cuds are Southern Classicist Allen Tate and Northern Romantic Wallace Stevens...
...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...
Settled. For onetime Badman Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone; the U. S. Government's claims for delinquent taxes for 126-29. Badman Capone's barricaded tate at Palm Island, Miami, Florida, was tout to be sold when the Internal Revenue Collector J. Edwin Larsen announced at in Chicago the remaining $17,194 in arrears had been paid, delinquencies which used Badman Capone to be sentenced to eleven years in prison...
...Poet John Crowe Ransom (Grace After Meat), co-author of the famed agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand and a pillar of Vanderbilt's English department for 23 years, took a job at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. When his fellow poet and agrarian, Alumnus Allen Tate, wrote an open letter of protest to Chancellor Kirkland, Poet Ransom explained that small, hustling Kenyon had offered him, besides more time for writing, $5,000 a year and a house as against Vanderbilt...