During this time, Tate also became the "de facto" associate editor of "The American Review", which was published and edited by Seward Collins. Tate believed "The American Review" could popularize the work of the Southern Agrarians. He objected to Collins's open support of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and condemned Fascism in an article in "The New Republic" in 1936. Much of Tate's major volumes of poetry were published in the 1930s, and the scholar David Havird describes this publication history in poetry as follows: By 1937, when he published his first "Selected Poems", Tate had written all of the shorter poems upon which his literary reputation came to rest. This collection--which brought together work from two recent volumes, "Poems: 1928-1931" (1932) and the privately printed "The Mediterranean and Other Poems" (1936), as well as the early "Mr. Pope"--included "Mother and Son," "Last Days of Alice," "The Wolves," "The Mediterranean," "Aeneas at Washington," "Sonnets at Christmas," and the final version of "Ode to the Confederate Dead." While visiting in Washington in 1936, Tate was interviewed by the Washington "'Post'": "South Is U.S. Literary Center, Asserts Allen Tate, Noted Poet."