Collected Poems, 1919-1976One of the early twentieth century Southern intellectuals and artists of the early twentieth century known as the Agrarians, Allen Tate wrote poetry that was rooted strongly in that region's past in the land, the people, and the traditions of the American South as well as in the forms and concerns of the classic poets. In Ode to the Confederate Dead generally recognized as his greatest poem he delineates both the horror of the sight of rows of