ESSAYS OF FOUR DECADES

What They're Saying...

"Allen Tate was more than one of the leading men of letters of his age. Throughout his career, both in his poetry and in his criticism, he dealt with the humane and the metaphysical, searching for the dimensions of our humanity and for whatever glimpses of supernatural truth that were legitimately available to him. Nowhere is his brilliance more fully realized than in these essays."
— Walter I. Sullivan, author, Allen Tate: A Recollection

"Allen Tate, once a central figure in American letters, has been eclipsed by the recent rage for abstract literary theory. But like a good wine, Tate's body of work has proven that it only gets better with age.'"
— Gregory Wolfe, Editor, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion

"[I]ntelligence marked everything [Tate] did. He played a deeper game than his readers knew and, not only for those who love a puzzle, his persistence is assured."
— Times Literary Supplement

"Alive today, Allen Tate would be in the thick of the so-called culture wars. He knew we were at war long before we woke up to the rumbling sound."
— The Sewanee Review

"The reissuing of Essays of Four Decades may help to salvage the Catholic sensibility of Allen Tate for a generation largely ignorant of his work and badly in need of his wisdom."
— The New Oxford Review

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