| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Untermeyer, Louis |
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( n´t rm r) (KEY) , 1885–1977, American poet and anthologist, b. New York City. Although a first-rate poet, he is known best for his anthologies, notably Modern American Poetry (1919), Modern British Poetry (1920), This Singing World (1923), Fifty Modern American and British Poets: 1920–1970 (1973), and many others, all of which have been revised numerous times. The high quality of his own poetry and his talent as a parodist are best represented in his Selected Poems and Parodies (1935). His prose works include Lives of the Poets (1960) and several volumes of criticism. | 1 | | See his autobiography, From Another World (1939), and The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (1963). | 2 |
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