← Allen TateThe Mediterraneanby Allen TatePoem set in a Mediterranean landscape examining cultural decline and European civilizationFind 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 TatePoemsPoems exploring Southern history, classical tradition, and modern alienation→Ode to the Confederate DeadElegy meditating on Civil War dead, historical loss, and American cultural memory→Collected PoemsComplete poems of a major Southern modernist poet and literary critic→