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Allen Tate and the Metaphysics of Metaphor

Allen Tate and the Metaphysics of Metaphor Allen Tate and the Metaphysics of Metaphor by Anthony Lombardy "But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly." -- Allen Tate, "The Hovering Fly," 117 I. The Challenge of the Chicago Criticism John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate both claimed that poetry is a form of knowledge. It is the knowledge of life as a whole, a kind of knowledge independent of and irreducible to other kinds of knowledge. Such views are implicit in early and evocative statements like Ransom's claim that the metaphysical poetry of the seventeenth century "had the courage of its metaphors" (The World's Body 137), as well as in Ransom's responses to the Chicago critics, but Tate was more insistent than Ransom in these "knowledge" claims, and focused them on the importance of metaphor. Among all the disputants in the collision between the Chicago critics and the New Critics, Allen Tate was the most diligent in asserting Aristotle's broad claims for the importance of poetry and metaphor in human life and cognition. Tate's reward was respectful attention among those who sympathized with his metaphysical concerns, which they discerned not only in his http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Allen Tate and the Metaphysics of Metaphor

Lombardy, Anthony
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 37 (2) – May 16, 2005
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Allen Tate and the Metaphysics of Metaphor by Anthony Lombardy "But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly." -- Allen Tate, "The Hovering Fly," 117 I. The Challenge of the Chicago Criticism John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate both claimed that poetry is a form of knowledge. It is the knowledge of life as a whole, a kind of knowledge independent of and irreducible to other kinds of knowledge. Such views are implicit in early and evocative statements like Ransom's claim that the metaphysical poetry of the seventeenth century "had the courage of its metaphors" (The World's Body 137), as well as in Ransom's responses to the Chicago critics, but Tate was more insistent than Ransom in these "knowledge" claims, and focused them on the importance of metaphor. Among all the disputants in the collision between the Chicago critics and the New Critics, Allen Tate was the most diligent in asserting Aristotle's broad claims for the importance of poetry and metaphor in human life and cognition. Tate's reward was respectful attention among those who sympathized with his metaphysical concerns, which they discerned not only in his

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