"'Allen Tate Reads from His Own Works'" helped launch the Yale Series of Recorded Poets in 1960. That year Tate edited "Selected Poems of John Peale Bishop" (Chatto & Windus), and "The Fathers" was reprinted (Eyre & Spottiswood and Swallow). The "Times Literary Supplement" said it was "possibly one of the great novels of our time'" and "Encounter" and the "New Statesman" published long review-articles by Frank Kermode and Janet Adam Smith. Tate said, "The British read the book as I conceived it--not as 'another Southern novel.'" He received an honorary Litt.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1960.