Word: tates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during a final exam, and the overly friendly girls who ask a young man whether he "would tutor me in this course because I just have no idea of what's going on." This summer saw an unusually large number of renowned professors among the School's faculty: Allen Tate, C. Northcote Parkinson, Angus Taylor, Harold Schmidt, and many others. On a poll distributed by the Summer News, all the respondents voiced approval of their courses, far higher percentage than Confidential Guide polls reveal. The small classes and informal lectures are to a great extent responsible for this, and most...
...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...
After another warm introduction, Ransom read his "Autumn Harvests," called by Tate "the finest poem ever to come out of the South...