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Allen Tate : Orphan of the South
- Title
- Allen Tate : Orphan of the South / Thomas A. Underwood.
- Author
- Underwood, Thomas A.
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 447 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Based on the author's unprecedented access to Tate's personal papers and surviving relatives, Orphan of the South brings Tate to 1938. It explores his attempt, first through politics and then through art, to reconcile his fierce talent and ambition with the painful history of his family - and of the South." "Tate was subjected to, and also perpetuated, fictional interpretations of his ancestry. He alternately abandoned and championed Southern culture. Viewing himself as an orphan from a region where family history is identity, he developed a curious blend of spiritual loneliness and ideological assuredness. His greatest challenge was transforming his troubled genealogy into a meaningful statement about himself and Southern culture as a whole. It was this problem that consumed Tate for the first half of his life, the years recorded here." "This portrait of a man who both made and endured American literary history depicts the South through the story of one of its treasured, ambivalent, and sometimes wayward sons. Readers will gain a fertile understanding of the Southern upbringing, education, and literary battles that produced the brilliant poet who was Allen Tate."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Tate, Allen, 1899-1979
- Tate, Allen, 1899-1979
- Fugitives (Group) > Biography
- Fugitives (Group)
- Since 1865
- Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Southern States
- Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
- Agrarians (Group of writers) > Biography
- Critics > United States > Biography
- Agrarians (Group of writers)
- Authors, American
- Authors, American > Homes and haunts
- Critics
- Intellectual life
- Literature
- Poets, American > 20th century > Biography
- Southern States > Intellectual life > 1865-
- Southern States > In literature
- Southern States > Biography
- Southern States
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "My terrible family" -- "Mother wanted me at home" -- "Unlike a natural mother" -- "O poet, O Allen Tate, O hot youth" -- "They used to call me 'the Yankee'" -- God the father and the South -- An agrarian and "the Brethen" -- Orphan of the South -- Fatherless fame -- A family reconstructed.
- ISBN
- 0691069506
- 9780691069500
- 0691115680
- 9780691115689
- LCCN
- 00034664
- OCLC
- ocm44090472
- 44090472
- SCSB-1139602
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library