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| | The Violence of Allen Tate by David Yezzi |
 | | Tates young protégé Robert Lowell and his wife Jean Stafford were living with the Tates at the time, and the novelist Peter Taylor, among others, had joined the party for Easter weekend. |
 | | Tates star had risen as a poet and critic, and Lowell, already racked by mental distress as a Harvard undergraduate and on the lam from his fathers disapproval, came to pay his respects. |
 | | Tate saw on first meeting that Lowell was cracked, but invited him in anyway, thus beginning, as Underwood reminds us, one of the most powerful and volatile mentor-protégé relationships in American literary history. From their first conversation, Tate expounded his particular view of poetry. |
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