Biography of a english poet tate brown

Tate is mainly known as a poet but he did produce one excellent novel, the exquisite Civil War novel The Fathers. Tate was born in November in Winchester, Kentucky. He spent many of his summers as a boy in Virginia. His first formal schooling was in Nashville but, after that, as the family fortunes changed and they had to move, his education was wherever his family happened to be.

Though he wrote poetry when young, he planned to be a musician and he attended Cincinnati Conservatory for a year. He entered Vanderbilt University in It was here that he first started writing poetry. It was also here he met a young professor called John Crowe Ransom , who was to have a profound influence on his poetry. Tate and Ransom were soon part of a group of poets called the Fugitives, which also included a young English instructor, Donald Davidson.

This group was to have an important influence on regional, particularly, Southern poetry and criticism. It was while out riding with Warren that he met the young writer Caroline Gordon , whom he married shortly afterwards. After their marriage, both Tate and Gordon tried to get their literary careers going.

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Tate was successful as both a critic and poet, though neither made him rich and Gordon and Tate had money problems all their lives. They helped out Hart Crane who was making no money but there was a quarrel between the Tates and Crane which led to a falling-out. At this time, he wrote his most famous poem, Ode to the Confederate Dead , one of the great American poems.

To make money, they tried living a pastoral life, growing their own vegetables, but Tate soon got bored with this and he wrote a biography Stonewall Jackson. They returned to France when Gordon was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, this time going to Toulon, where their friend Ford Madox Ford had found them a villa.