← Allen TatePoemsby Allen TatePoems exploring Southern history, classical tradition, and modern alienationFind on Amazon↗About the authorAllen TateAmerican poet and critic who was a member of the Fugitive group and a leading New Critic. His Ode to the Confederate Dead is considered a modernist masterpiece.More by Allen TateOde to the Confederate DeadElegy meditating on Civil War dead, historical loss, and American cultural memory→The MediterraneanPoem set in a Mediterranean landscape examining cultural decline and European civilization→Collected PoemsComplete poems of a major Southern modernist poet and literary critic→