(1885-10-01)October 1, 1885 New York City, New York, United States
Died
December 18, 1977(1977-12-18) (aged 92) Newtown, Connecticut, United States
Occupation
Author
anthologist
editor
poet
Nationality
American
Spouse
Jean Starr (1906–26; divorced)
Virginia Moore (1927–29; divorced)
Jean Starr (1929–30; divorced again)
Esther Antin (1931–45; divorced)
Bryna Ivens (1948–77; widowed)
(1909–1985)
Louis Untermeyer (October 1, 1885 – December 18, 1977) was an American poet, anthologist, critic,[1] and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961.[2]
^See for example his criticism of Wallace Stevens's Harmonium, including such poems as Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs.
^"Poet Laureate Timeline: 1961–1970". Library of Congress. 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
LouisUntermeyer (October 1, 1885 – December 18, 1977) was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Consultant...
personification, and repetition are prominent in the work. In a letter to LouisUntermeyer, Frost called it "my best bid for remembrance". Frost wrote the poem...
Frere, in William Ellery Leonard's Aesop & Hyssop (1912), and in LouisUntermeyer's 1965 poem. The moral stated at the end of the Greek version is, "this...
best poems," was an immediate success. Edna St. Vincent Millay and LouisUntermeyer praised the work. The Poetry Society awarded her its Julia Ellsworth...
Revised Edition (1925) and Modern British Poetry, both edited by LouisUntermeyer. Louis' first book of poetry, The Attic of the Past and other Lyrics,...
The Owl and the Pussycat, and Annabel Lee, and commentary written by LouisUntermeyer. Scourby and Lori von Eltz were married on May 12, 1943. Von Eltz was...
1947. A Masque of Mercy (Holt). 1963. The Letters of Robert Frost to LouisUntermeyer (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; Cape, 1964). 1963. Robert Frost and John...
of six volumes of poetry and a memoir. She was married to the poet LouisUntermeyer from 1906 to 1926. Starr was born into a well-off Jewish family in...
Spencer Gertrude Stein Wallace Stevens Trumbull Stickney Allen Tate LouisUntermeyer Mark Van Doren Peter Viereck José Garcia Villa Robert Penn Warren John...
O'Clock. That collection included the patriotic poem "Lilacs", which LouisUntermeyer said was the poem of hers he liked best. Her first published work appeared...
who had rallied to Jurgen's defense: Sinclair Lewis, Wilson Follett, LouisUntermeyer, H. L. Mencken, Hugh Walpole, and Joseph Hergesheimer. The scandal...
Alexander Trachtenberg of International Publishers, Franklin Folsom, LouisUntermeyer, I. F. Stone, Myra Page, Millen Brand, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell...
Columbia University), to edit their magazine. John Sloan, Art Young, LouisUntermeyer, and Inez Haynes Gillmore (among others) mailed a terse letter to Eastman...
praised by fellow poets such as Richard Armour, David McCord, and LouisUntermeyer. At the time of Morris Bishop's birth his father, Edwin Rubergall Bishop...
[citation needed] The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan as retold by LouisUntermeyer and illustrated by Everett Gee Jackson was published in 1945 by The...
radio personality Helen Tamiris, choreographer Betty Todd, director LouisUntermeyer, poet Hilda Vaughn, actress J. Raymond Walsh, radio commentator Sam...
for portraying Captain Hook in the Broadway production of Peter Pan LouisUntermeyer, 92, American anthologist, poet and editor Marriner Eccles, 87, U.S...
blood and death exacted by World War I. The poem was included in LouisUntermeyer's anthology, Modern American Poetry, published in 1919 (see 1919 in...
1933, 1936, 1938), p. 343. Modern American Poetry: An Introduction, LouisUntermeyer, ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1919), p. 54. Modern American...
Eliot's understanding of salvation could not help the real world whereas LouisUntermeyer believed that not everyone would understand the poems. Many critics...
war but never published them. When she shared one poem with critic LouisUntermeyer and poet John Meyers O'Hara, they cautioned her against publishing...
Hammett gives you unimpaired control and machinelike efficiency". LouisUntermeyer wrote, "Hammett has done something extraordinarily new to the murder...
declined into obscurity by the time of his death in 1960. According to LouisUntermeyer (editor of Modern American Poetry), Kemp's early collections (The Cry...
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