"I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it."
- Allen TateAmerican poet and critic Allen Tate lived from 1900 until 1979. He belonged to a group of authors and intellectuals known as the Southern Agrarians, who were worried about the social and cultural shifts occurring in America in the early 20th century. Tate had profound understanding of the nature of …