Contents -- Introduction -- I: THE MAN -- In Amicitia -- Allen Tate: A Portrait -- Allen Tate: Upon the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday -- Two Winters with Allen Tate and Hart Crane -- Visiting the Tates -- Our Cousin, Mr. Tate -- Allen Tate -- Allen Tate as a Teacher -- An Encounter in Florence -- A Dove -- II: THE ESSAYIST -- A Note on the Vitality of Allen Tate's Prose -- The Criticism of Allen Tate -- Allen Tate as Man of Letters -- San Giovanni in Venere: Allen Tate as Man of Letters -- Crucial Questions -- A Metaphysical Athlete: Allen Tate as Critic -- A Note on Allen Tate's Essays -- III: THE NOVELIST -- The Fathers -- The End of the Old Dominion -- Southern Style -- Old Orders Changing (Tate and Lampedusa) -- IV: THE POET -- Allen Tate's Poetry -- The Courage of Irony: The Poetry of Allen Tate -- Allen Tate's Use of Classical Literature -- Origins and Beginnings -- The Serpent in the Mulberry Bush -- On "The Cross" -- The Meaning of War: A Note on Allen Tate's "To the Lacedemonians" -- The Current of the Frozen Stream -- The Poetry of Allen Tate -- Allen Tate's Inferno -- Culture and Technique in Tate -- An Introduction to the Poetry of Allen Tate -- On Allen Tate -- Allen Tate's Terzinas -- The Works of Allen Tate -- Works about Allen Tate -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.