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...will not be missed who as an anthologist sold the many on the jew not excluding mr u -E. E. Cummings...
...Anthologist Bretall's judicious excerpting from 17 of Kierkegaard's major & minor works makes a 481-page compendium that is also almost a biography. For Sören Kierkegaard lived most intensely and dramatically in his thoughts...
...last week made this admission, has fallen more & more often in recent weeks into an uneasy, self-conscious mood. The New Yorker has not been alone. A wartime schizophrenia has touched all U.S. magazines trading in fiction and frills. And last week, in the April Harper's, Poet-Anthologist Oscar Williams culled from his correspondence with poets a summary of the wartime writer's dilemma-"a kind of Gallup poll of the soul." No writer was particularly happy in his work. Samples of unease...
Ellis In, Osier Out. Most of the verse Anthologist McDonough found was very bad indeed: she left out 20 poor poems for every good or fair one she put in. Such doctors as Edward Jenner (vaccination pioneer) and Havelock Ellis made the grade, but a list of all the doctor-poets the anthologist uncovered shows that such poetasters as William Harvey. Hippocrates, Sir William Osier, Rabelais and Morris Fishbein failed to satisfy Mrs. McDonough's critical taste. Nonetheless, a lot of doggerel got in. One of the most amusing contemporary specimens is John Fallon's Inscription...
Louis Untermeyer, 58, unremitting poetaster and anthologist (Modern American Poetry; Modern British Poetry), was sued for separation and alimony by his third wife, who claimed, in affidavits filed with the court, that on their tenth wedding anniversary he had asked for a divorce so he "might marry the woman who had been living with him as his mistress." The woman was identified as a onetime pupil of Untermeyer's. Mrs. Untermeyer charged that her husband had been receiving "vulgar" verse from his former pupil ever since. Mr. Untermeyer said that his new love had revived his poetic inspiration...