ESSAYS OF FOUR DECADES
By Allen Tate
With a new introduction by Louise Cowan
List Item No. 269
ISBN: 1-882926-29-3 (cloth)
663 pages (includes Index)
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ISI Books is proud to reintroduce this classic collection of nearly fifty essays by one of the century's most acclaimed poets and literary critics. More than three decades after its original publication, Tate's masterpiece speaks poignantly to the concerns of today's students, teachers, and general literature readers alike. It covers the broad sweep of his critical concerns: poetry, poets, fiction, the imagination, language, literature, and culture.
What They're Saying...
"Allen Tate's eminence…consists in his uncommon combination of excellences…[He] is a good poet and a good literary critic who is distinguished for the sagacity of his social judgment and the consistency with which he has maintained the least popular of political attitudes—that of the sage."
— T. S. Eliot
"The poet, the thinker, the public figure, the whole man, —Allen Tate's personality is greatly distinguished in our time...."
— John Crowe Ransom
"That Allen Tate's Essays of Four Decades, his most comprehensive and durable book of criticism, is being reissued is cause for rejoicing—a literary event of the first magnitude. Tate, as leading critics of the present time, such as Denis Donoghue and Lewis P. Simpson, know in their bones, may well be the best American critic of our century. Louise Cowan points this out in her superb introduction, a fillip that any admirer of Tate will be delighted to have. I am betting she is right."
— George Core, editor, The Sewanee Review
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Essays Include:
- The Man of Letters in the Modern World
- To Whom is the Poet Responsible?
- Is Literary Criticism Possible?
- Literature as Knowledge
- Understanding Modern Poetry
- A Note on Donne
- Emily Dickinson
- Ezra Pound
- Our Cousin, Mr. Poe
- The Angelic Imagination
- The Symbolic Imagination
- T. S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday
- The Profession of Letters in the South
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