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...taught the course on American poetry at Harvard before his death last spring--lays down the six "ground rules" by which he was guided in making his selections. These are: (1) fewere poets, with more space for each; (2) nothing included on merely historical grounds; (3) nothing that the anthologist himself does not like; (4) not too many sonets; (5) poems, when possible, of some length; and (6) no excerpts...
After he married Poetess Jean Starr for the first time (she was also his third wife), wealthy Anthologist Louis Untermeyer, 64, wrote...
...Anthologist Ciardi, a Harvard professor and minor poet, 33, asked 15 "younger poets" (several are in their 403) to contribute a batch of verse to this volume and to write introductory statements about their work. It seemed a good way to present a fairly representative cross section of the serious new U.S. verse of the past decade and also to let the poets speak up in their own behalf...
Jones introduction deals mainly with recent attempts in this country (rather than in Germany or in Russia) of a majority to retain the unpopular utterances of a minority. The anthologist, in a well reasoned statement, rejects "arbitrary classifications of citizenship" according to membership in parties or groups Communist, Republican, atheist, or what-have-you. One must judge "men rather than platforms," Jones says, and "Ideas considered pragmatically (rather than) ideologies...
Publisher Bennett Cerf, columnist and joke-anthologist, bemoaned the creative life: "It's a good thing for a publisher to turn author once in a while. He learns how easy it is to feel hurt. On publication day he looks at the papers and finds his book mentioned only among Books Published Today . . . Even his friends don't know what day this is. Life outside is actually going on as usual. It is very hard to take...