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Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

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Allen Tate
Age: 79 †
Born: 1899
Born: November 19
Died: 1979
Died: February 9
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Literary Critic
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University Teacher
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Winchester
Kentucky
John Orley Allen Tate
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My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears.
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I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
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