Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. A Setting Forth: The Value of Allen Tate’s Poetry and Thought, Its Current Place, and Its Context
2. The Irrefrangibly Complicated Study: Toward the Conception and Presentation of the Modern Mind
3. The Genuine Attitude for Learning: The Modern Southerner at Home Abroad and the “Death of Little Boys”
4. Classicism, Modernism, and the Confederate Dead: The Modern Mind at the Gates and at the Bank
5. “Remarks on the Southern Religion”: Toward the Means, the Ends, and the Violence
6. Six Poems: From Crisis toward Belief and the Fullness of History
7. Out of Silence and into Silence: “Seasons of the Soul” and the Ends of Language
8. The Last Things: Toward the Irrepressible Conflict
Bibliography
Index of Tate’s Writings
General Index