Allen Tate

Allen Tate

John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.

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    The times have changed. Why do you make a fuss
    For privilege when there’s no law of form?
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    When Alexander Pope strolled in the city
    Strict was the glint of pearl and gold sedans.
    Ladies leaned out more out of fear than pity
    For Pope’s tight back was rather a goat’s than man’s.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    This is the man who classified the bits
    Of his friends’ hells into a pigeonhole—
    He hung each disparate anguish on the spits
    Parboiled and roasted in his own withering soul.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    Summer, this is our flesh,
    The body you let mature;
    If now while the body is fresh
    You take it, shall we give
    The heart....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    What shall we say of the bones, unclean,
    Whose verdurous anonymity will grow?
    The ragged arms, the ragged heads and eyes
    Lost in these acres of the insane green?
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)