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Born in November 19, 1899 / Died in February 9, 1979 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • (With Ridley Wills) The Golden Mean, and Other Poems, privately printed, 1923.
  • Mr. Pope, and Other Poems, Minton Balch (New York, NY), 1928.
  • Three Poems: Ode to the Confederate Dead, Message from Abroad, The Cross, Minton Balch (New York, NY), 1930.
  • Poems: 1928-1931, Scribner (New York, NY), 1932.
  • The Mediterranean and Other Poems, Alcestis Press (New York, NY), 1936.
  • Selected Poems, Scribner (New York, NY), 1937.
  • Sonnets at Christmas, Cummington Press (Cummington, MA), 1941.
  • The Winter Sea, Cummington Press (Cummington, MA), 1944.
  • Fragment of a Meditation/ MCMXXVIII, Cummington Press (Cummington, MA), 1947.
  • Poems, 1920-1945, Eyre and Spottiswoode (London, England), 1947.
  • Poems: 1922-1947, Scribner (New York, NY), 1948, enlarged edition, 1960.
  • Two Conceits for the Eye to Sing, if Possible, Cummington Press (Cummington, MA), 1950, reprinted, Norwood Editions (Norwood, PA), 1977.
  • Poems, Scribner (New York, NY), 1960.
  • The Swimmers and Other Selected Poems, Oxford University Press, 1970, Scribner (New York, NY), 1971.
  • Collected Poems, 1919-1976, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1977.

EDITOR

  • White Buildings: Poems by Hart Crane, Horace Liveright, 1926.
  • (With others) Fugitives: An Anthology of Verse, Harcourt, Brace (New York, NY), 1928.
  • (With Herbert Agar) Who Owns America?: A New Declaration of Independence, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1936, with a new foreword by Edward S. Shapiro, ISI Books (Wilmington, DE), 1999.
  • (With A. Theodore Johnson) America through the Essay: An Anthology for English Courses, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1938.
  • The Language of Poetry, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1942.
  • Princeton Verse between Two Wars: An Anthology, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1942.
  • (With John Peale Bishop) American Harvest: Twenty Years of Creative Writing in the United States, Garden City Publishing (New York, NY), 1942.
  • A Southern Vanguard: The John Peale Bishop Memorial Volume, Prentice-Hall (New York, NY), 1947.
  • The Collected Poems of John Peale Bishop, Scribner (New York, NY), 1948.
  • (With Caroline Gordon) The House of Fiction: An Anthology of the Short Story, Scribner (New York, NY), 1950, revised edition, 1960.
  • Sixty American Poets, 1896-1944, Morrow (New York, NY), 1945, revised edition, 1954.
  • (With David Cecil) Modern Verse in English, 1900-1950, Jarrold (London, England), 1958.
  • (With John Berryman and Ralph Ross) The Arts of Reading (anthology), Crowell (New York, NY), 1960.
  • Philip Wheelwright and others, The Language of Poetry, Russell and Russell (New York, NY), 1960.
  • Selected Poems of John Peale Bishop, Scribner (New York, NY), 1960.
  • (With Robert Penn Warren) Denis Devlin, Selected Poems, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (New York, NY), 1963.
  • T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work: A Critical Evaluation by Twenty-six Distinguished Writers, Delacorte (New York, NY), 1967.
  • Complete Poetry and Selected Criticism of Edgar Allan Poe, New American Library (New York, NY), 1968.
  • Six American Poets from Emily Dickinson to the Present: An Introduction, University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1971.

OTHER

  • Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier: A Narrative, Minton Balch (New York, NY), 1928, with a new preface by Thomas Landess, J. S. Sanders (Nashville, TN), 1991.
  • Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall: A Biographical Narrative, Minton Balch (New York, NY), 1929, reprinted, J. S. Sanders (Nashville, TN), 1998.
  • (With others) The Critique of Humanism, Harcourt, Brace, and Company (New York, NY), 1930.
  • (With others) I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition by Twelve Southerners, Harper (New York, NY), 1930.
  • Reactionary Essays on Poetry and Ideas, Scribner (New York, NY), 1936.
  • The Fathers (novel; also see below), Putnam (New York, NY), 1938, revised edition, A. Swallow (Denver, CO), 1960, with new introduction by Arthur Mizener, Swallow Press (Athens, OH), 1984.
  • Reason in Madness: Critical Essays, Putnam (New York, NY), 1941.
  • (With Huntington Cairns and Mark Van Doren) Invitation to Learning, Random House (New York, NY), 1941.
  • (Translator) Pervigilium Veneris, Vigil of Venus, Cummington Press (Cummington, MA), 1943.
  • Recent American Poetry and Poetic Criticism: A Selected List of References, Library of Congress (Washington, DC), 1943.
  • On the Limits of Poetry: Selected Essays, 1928-1948, Swallow Press (New York, NY), 1948.
  • The Hovering Fly and Other Essays, Cummington Press (Cummington, MA), 1948.
  • The Forlorn Demon: Didactic and Critical Essays, Regnery (Chicago, IL), 1953.
  • The Man of Letters in the Modern World: Selected Essays, 1928-1955, Meridian Books (New York, NY), 1955.
  • Collected Essays, A. Swallow (Denver, CO), 1959, revised and enlarged as Essays of Four Decades, Swallow Press (Chicago, IL), 1968, reprinted, ISI Books (Wilmington, DE), 1999.
  • (With Anne Goodwin Winslow) The Governess (play), produced 1962.
  • Christ and the Unicorn: An Address, Cummington Press (Cummington, MA), 1966.
  • Mere Literature and the Lost Traveller, Swallow Press (Chicago, IL), 1968.
  • The Translation of Poetry, Library of Congress (Washington, DC), 1972.
  • The Literary Correspondence of Donald Davidson and Allen Tate, edited by John Tyree Fain and Thomas Daniel Young, University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA), 1974.
  • Memoirs and Opinions, 1926-1974, Swallow Press (Chicago, IL), 1975, published as Memoirs & Essays Old and New, 1926-1974, Carcanet (Manchester, England), 1976.
  • The Fathers and Other Fiction, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1977, reprinted, 1996.
  • The Republic of Letters in America: The Correspondence of John Peale Bishop and Allen Tate, edited by Thomas Daniel Young and John J. Hindle, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1981.
  • The Poetry Reviews of Allen Tate: 1924-1944, edited by Ashley Brown and Frances Neel Cheney, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1983.
  • The Lytle/Tate Letters, with Allen Tate, edited by Thomas Daniel Young and Elizabeth Sarcone, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 1987.
  • Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976, edited by Alphonse Vinh, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 1998.

Kenyon Review, editor, 1938-42. Work represented in books, including The Best Short Stories, 1934, Houghton, 1934, and A Southern Harvest, Houghton, 1937. Contributor of essays and poetry to periodicals, including Double-Dealer, Hound and Horn, Fugitive, Literary Review, Nation, New Republic, Minnesota Review, Shenandoah, Kenyon Review, Partisan Review, Yale Review, Criterion, Le Figaro Litteraire, and Sewanee Review. Tate's papers are collected at the Princeton University Library, the Columbia University Library, and the University of Victoria Library, British Columbia.