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Also Known As John Orley Allen Tate
Born November 19, 1899 • Kentucky • (Birthday in 6 days)
Died February 9, 1979 (aged 79) • Nashville • Tennessee
Awards And Honors Bollingen Prize (1956)
Notable Works “I’ll Take My Stand” • “Ode to the Confederate Dead” • “The Fathers”
Movement / Style Fugitives • New Criticism

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Czesław Miłosz
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American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
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Ezra Pound
American poet
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
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W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
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William Carlos Williams
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Howard Nemerov
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