Word: anthologist
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Died. Joseph Henry Jackson, 60, Sunday book editor and daily literary columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, longtime radio commentator on books (Bookman's Notebook), anthologist (Viking Portable Murder Book), writer of fact-crime books (Bad Company) and California history (Anybody's Gold); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Francisco...
...Paris to sop up background about great poets of the past, Poet-Anthologist Louis Untermeyer was in a gloomy mood about the prospects for U.S. poets of the present. "There are only one or two poets, Robert Frost and possibly Ogden Nash, who are making a living out of it," Untermeyer complained to Columnist Art Buchwald. "The rest of us have to teach, write books, compose anthologies ... A poet can't even starve in a garret these days because garrets now are too expensive . . . There is less hospitality for a poet than there ever has been before. The mediums...
...MAGIC CIRCLE (288 pp.)-Edited by Louis Untermeyer-Harcourt, Brace ($3). A perennial anthologist has sifted some poetry that rhymes and rouses, from The Highwayman to The Shooting of Dan McGrew...
...Anthologist Garnett has arranged Lawrence's work in chronological order, to show the growth of the man. But there is something annoying in the title of this collection, and in the idea behind it. The essential T. E. Lawrence is to be found in the entirety of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in his collection of letters, and perhaps, when it appears, in The Mint-not in a paste & scissors job which cuts him up into snippets...
This is a book which probably should be on every Advocate editor's shelf. According to its preface: "The Harvard Advocate has published selections from its past volumes before, but the attitude of the anthologist has in each case differed from ours . . . principal attention seems to have been paid to selecting the best material which had been published, irrespective of the later careers of the authors." This would seem a reasonable principle by which to select material for an anthology...