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American writer and editor. A leading exponent of New Criticism, he edited the Sewanee Review (1944-1946) and is known especially for his poetry, including "Ode to the Confederate Dead" (1926). English poet and playwright who wrote a popular adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear in 1687 and was appointed poet laureate in 1692. Tate Gallery Tate John Orley Allen Tate Nahum
an art gallery in south central London which shows British art from the 16th century to the present day. There is a special part of the Tate that contains a large collection of work by J.M.W. turner
the former name for the Tate Britain. There are also two smaller Tate Galleries outside London, one in Liverpool, and one in St Ives in southwest England. Art museum in London housing the national collection of British painting and sculpture and of modern British and European art since 1870. It is named after Sir Henry Tate (1819-1899), a sugar refiner and inventor of the sugar cube, who donated his collection of Victorian art to the nation in 1890. The Neoclassical building, designed by Sidney R. J. Smith, opened in 1897. Originally administered by the National Gallery, the museum became completely independent only in 1954. In 1987 the Clore Gallery was built to house the principal collection of J.M.W. Turner's works. In 1988 a branch was opened in Liverpool. The Tate Modern, a converted power plant housing the modern collections, opened in 2000
Britain's national museum of modern art in London, which was first opened to the public in May 2000. The building was formerly a power station, and it was changed into an art gallery by two Swiss architects. The museum contains works by famous artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Francis Bacon
born Nov. 19, 1899, Winchester, Ky., U.S. died Feb. 9, 1979, Nashville, Tenn. U.S. poet and novelist. While attending Vanderbilt University Tate helped found The Fugitive (1922-25), a poetry magazine concentrating largely on the South, and contributed to I'll Take My Stand (1930), a Fugitive manifesto defending the region's conservative agrarian society. From 1934 he taught at several institutions, including Princeton University and the University of Minnesota, becoming a leading exponent of the New Criticism. He emphasized the writer's need for tradition, which he found in Southern culture and later in Roman Catholicism, to which he converted in 1950. His best-known poem is "Ode to the Confederate Dead" (1926)
born Nov. 19, 1899, Winchester, Ky., U.S. died Feb. 9, 1979, Nashville, Tenn. U.S. poet and novelist. While attending Vanderbilt University Tate helped found The Fugitive (1922-25), a poetry magazine concentrating largely on the South, and contributed to I'll Take My Stand (1930), a Fugitive manifesto defending the region's conservative agrarian society. From 1934 he taught at several institutions, including Princeton University and the University of Minnesota, becoming a leading exponent of the New Criticism. He emphasized the writer's need for tradition, which he found in Southern culture and later in Roman Catholicism, to which he converted in 1950. His best-known poem is "Ode to the Confederate Dead" (1926)
born 1652, Dublin, Ire. died July 30, 1715, London, Eng. Irish-English poet and playwright. After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, Tate moved to London. Though he wrote plays of his own, he is best known for his adaptations of Elizabethan works, notably William Shakespeare's King Lear, with a happy ending, which was performed well into the 19th century. He wrote the libretto for Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (1689?) and collaborated with Nicholas Brady in A New Version of the Psalms of David (1696). The best of his own poems is "Panacea: A Poem upon Tea" (1700). He became England's poet laureate in 1692