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Since an act of Parliament in 1935, it has been permissible for works from the British national collections to go on loan abroad. Last week's exhibition, however, was the first outside of England to which the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum have contributed their finest paintings. The King, moreover, made a unique exception in allowing loans from the Royal collections. To this generosity the French responded by clearing five great rooms in the Louvre and restoring them to the splendor of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Insured for a total...
...Allen Tate, noted American poet and critic, will give a free public lecture tomorrow afternoon (Thurs.) on "Tension in Poetic Imagery," in Sever Hall, 4:30 o'clock. The lecture is under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...
Died. J. Waddy Tate, 66, onetime (1929-31) mayor of Dallas, Texas; after brief illness; in Dallas. In the 1927 mayoralty campaign, Tate wore blue overalls, carried a fishing rod, lost; but two years later he spent only $218 campaigning, bought frankfurters for 10,000 voters, won hands down...
...publishing his own selection of his poems Author Tate places his latest works first. Readers who reverse that order will find his book more readily comprehensible, will find that few books better illustrate the professional literate's magpie-like stealing of twigs off literature's genealogical tree, his pupa-like spinning, out of a bowel-deep terror of extinction, pessimism's tight and tolerably comfortable cocoon. Irritating to 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...
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...