Allen Tate : the modern mind and the discovery of enduring love /
John V. Glass, III.
- Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource
Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation (University of Mississippi, 2009).
Includes bibliographies and index.
A setting forth: the value of Allen Tate's poetry and thought, its current place and its context -- The irrefrangibly complicated study: toward the conception and presentation of the modern mind -- The genuine attitude for learning: the modern Southerner at home abroad and the "Death of Little Boys" -- Classicism, modernism, and the Confederate dead: the modern mind at the gates and the bank -- "Remarks on the Southern religion": toward the means, the ends, and the violence -- Six poems: from crisis toward belief and the fullness of history -- Out of silence and into silence: "Seasons of the Soul" and the ends of language -- The last things: toward the irrepressible conflict.
"This book reassesses the importance of Allen Tate (1899-1976), a former U.S. Poet Laureate, as a uniquely Southern and fundamentally religious poet and a critic. Through close analysis of Tate's essays and poems, the author argues that the arc of Tate's career presents a coherent effort to understand the Modernist's sense of the "dissociated sensibility, and that in his conversion to Catholicism, he found the means of rediscovering unified existence"--
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Tate, Allen, 1899-1979 --Criticism and interpretation. Tate, Allen, 1899-1979 --Religion.
Modernism (Aesthetics) Religion and literature. Spirituality in literature. Catholic converts--Southern States.