A selective bibliography of open access articles on Allen Tate, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Arbery, Virginia. A violent recovery: Allen Tate and the religious foundations of community, in Political Science Reviewer, 2001 (removed)
Bawer, Bruce. Religious atheist: The case of Allen Tate. "At a time...when America's intellectual elite should have been lifting high the torch of democracy, Tate and company were serving up proposals for social change derived from the pre-Civil War slaveholding states and the French fascist movement." In the Hudson Review, Spring 2002
Havird, David. "Allen Tate's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry site (Univ. of Ill)
Reuben, Paul P. A primary and secondary bibliography for Allen Tate, from Dr. Reuben's bibliography site
Stanonis, Anthony. "Take Him East Where Life Began": The Role of Virginia in Shaping the Early Writings of Allen Tate, in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 2004
Sullivan, Waker. Review of Allen Tate: A Recollection (Louisiana State University) in the National Review, Jan 27, 1989 Reviewed by Clyde Wilson
Tate, Allen. "Narcissus as Narcissus" from Reason in Madness (1938)
Underwood, Thomas A. First chapter of Underwood's Allen Tate: Orphan of the South (Princeton Univ. Press)
Underwood, Thomas A. "A biography of the critic Allen Tate focuses on his Southern aesthetics," says a review of Underwood's Allen Tate: Orphan of the South
Underwood, Thomas A. Keeper of the Flame. A review of Underwood's Allen Tate: Orphan of the South in The National Review, May 14, 2001. Reviewed by Scott Morris
Yezzi, David. "The Violence of Allen Tate." In The New Criterion, Vol. 20, #1, Sept. 2001
Yezzi, David. The fortunes of formalism In The New Criterion, Vol. 23, No. 8, April 2005
Allen Tate section with reliable articles on Tate's life and career; Tate’s 1938 Commentary on his "Ode"; Donald Davidson’s 1927 Commentary On Tate’s "Ode"; Langdon Hammer: On the Opening Stanza of the "Ode"; On Tate's "Ode to the Confederate Dead," from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)
Entry on "Allen Tate" in the Tennessee Encyclopedia
An introduction to Allen Tate from the Academy of American Poets
A succinct summary of modern American poetry discusses Allen Tate's importance, from the Academy of American Poets site
Issues and questions for teachers of Allen Tate's poetry from Heath guides
Manuscripts for the Fugitives and Agrarians in the Vanderbilt University Special Collections
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