| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

Allen Tate: Orphan of the South. By Thomas A. Underwood. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. viii, 447 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-06950-6.)

Thomas A. Underwood's long-awaited biography of the poet and critic Allen Tate (1899–1979) focuses on Tate's obsessions with regional identity, personal alienation, and cultural dispossession. Born in Winchester, Kentucky, Tate spent his youth moving among various cities in the upper South and lower Midwest. His formidable mother, Eleanor Custis Varnell Tate, intended to escape Tate's father—a hard-drinking, unreliable, and often volatile man; in the process, she nearly suffocated young Allen with her overbearing attentions. She even accompanied him to college, moving with him to Nashville, Tennessee, as he matriculated at Vanderbilt University. Tate eventually asserted his personal independence; his emotional independence was more difficult to achieve. . . .

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