Allen Tate (Author)

One of the “Fugitives”, American poet and essayist, Allen Tate (1899–1979), emerged on the scene of American letters in the 1930s and 1940s along with Robert Penn Warren and John Crowe Ransom after college days at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. Tate taught at Kenyon College in Ohio, where his students there included the poets Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrell.

Tate would become known for his contributions to literary criticism, including contributions to New Criticism, and
conservative association of writers known as the Southern Agrarians. Tate would be appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.