Divorced and remarried, the Tates lived in New York from 1946 to 1951. Tate published "Poems 1922-1947." It included the long "Seasons of the Soul," written during World War II, which he valued more highly than the "Ode." He was editor of belle lettres at Henry Holt and Co. for two years, a lecturer at NYU for four years. He received an honorary Litt.D. from the University of Louisville in 1948. He was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago in 1949. He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1949. He would try without success until the end of his life to get Gordon elected to the Institute.