Allen Tate was a great poet. He was born on November 19th, 1899, in Winchester, US. Tate graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1922. He was first married to Caroline Gordon, a novelist in 1925.
Tate was a founder-editor of The Fugitive, a poetry magazine printed at Nashville, from 1922 to 1925.
In 1922, Tate read T.S. Eliot, and was struck by their similarities in political thought. Tate’s early work was also influenced by Baudelaire, Corbiere, Ezra Pound, and Edwin Arlington Robinson. In 1928, Tate published his first book of poetry, ‘Mr. Pope and Other Poems’ which contained his most famous poem, ‘Ode to the Confederate Dead’.
That same year, Tate also published a biography ‘Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier’. ‘Seasons of the Soul’, and ‘The Buried Lake’ are Tate’s other acclaimed works. Besides being a poet Tate was a prominent critic too.
Allen Tate passed away in 1979. Tate had been a mentor to many young poets during his lifetime.