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The flies swarmed on the putrid vulva, then
A black tumbling rout would seethe
Of maggots, thick like a torrent in a glen.... - Allen Tate Attribution: Allen Tate (1899–1979), U.S. poet, critic. “A Carrion.”

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• Allen Tate is born
• John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and other members of “the Fugitives” school of American poetry publish the quarterly journal The Fugitive in Nashville
• Allen Tate publishes Ode to the Confederate Dead
• “Twelve Southerners,” whose number includes John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, publish I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition
• Allen Tate publishes The Fathers
• Allen Tate dies