Word: selden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY (488 pp.)-Selden Rodman - Modern Library...
...Selden Rodman's anthology (a Modern Library Giant), first published in 1939 and now issued in a revised edition, has sold 39,000 copies to date (the Modern Library's smaller, cheaper 20th Century American Poetry, edited by Conrad Aiken, has also sold 60,000 since 1927). Less compendious and more personal in his choices than Untermeyer, Rodman has arrayed his poems not chronologically but by categories to show the best points of modernity-from Hardy and Yeats to Dylan Thomas and Robert Lowell. His taste may be quarreled with by the many as it certainly will...
...James K. Selden...
Among poetry anthologies were: War Poets (edited by Oscar Williams); War and the Poet, a far more comprehensive anthology edited by Richard Eberhart and Selden Rodman. It included war poetry from all over the world and from 1800 B.C. to the present...
...page book, Editor-translator Gisella Selden-Goth finecombed the German shelves in New York libraries and the Library of Congress. Said she: "If I had been able to use the libraries in Germany there would have been a great deal more. [If the Mendelssohn correspondence] . . . shared the fate of other spiritual products of Jewish origin ... no complete edition of his letters can ever be published...