Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977)
Autor(a) de The Golden Treasury of Poetry
About the Author
Louis Untermeyer was born in 1885 in New York City. He was a poet, anthologist, and editor. Untermeyer was known for his wit and his love of puns. For a while, he held Marxist beliefs, writing for magazines such as The Masses. He advocated that the U.S. should stay out of World War 1. After the mostrar mais suppression of that magazine by the U.S. government, he joined The Liberator, published by the Workers Party of America. Later he wrote for the independent socialist magazine The New Masses. He was a co-founder of "The Seven Arts," a poetry magazine that is credited for introducing many new poets, including Robert Frost. In 1950, Untermeyer was a panelist during the first year of the What's My Line? television quiz program. According to Bennett Cerf, Untermeyer would sign virtually any piece of paper that someone placed in front of him, and Untermeyer inadvertently signed a few Communist proclamations. He was named during the hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities investigating communist subversion. At that point, the producers told Untermeyer that he had to leave the television series. The controversy surrounding Untermeyer led to him being blacklisted by the television industry. Louis Untermeyer was the author or editor of close to 100 books, from 1911 until his death in 1977. Many of his books and his other memorabilia are preserved in a special section of the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Schools used his Modern American and British poetry books widely, and they often introduced college students to poetry. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: English: American writer, poet, literary critic, and editor Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977)
Séries
Obras por Louis Untermeyer
Grimm's Fairy Tales (Collectors Edition) The 100 Greatest Stories Ever Written (1810) — Editor — 169 exemplares
A treasury of laughter,: Consisting of humorous stories, poems, essays, tall tales, jokes, boners, epigrams, memorable… (1946) — Editor — 164 exemplares
Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry (1656) 86 exemplares
Makers of the modern world; the lives of ninety-two writers, artists, scientists, statesmen, inventors, philosophers,… (1955) 49 exemplares
The Golden Treasury of Children's Literature Volume 04: Old Friends and Lasting Favorites (1962) — Editor — 13 exemplares
Treasury of Great Humor; Including Wit, Whimsy and Satire from the Remote Past to the Present. (1972) 11 exemplares
Great Poems from Chaucer to Whitman 3 exemplares
The New Adam 3 exemplares
More Poems 3 exemplares
Time for Peace: Verses from the Bible 2 exemplares
The Golden Trashery of Ogden Nash 2 exemplares
A century of candymaking, 1847-1947; the story of the origin and growth of New England Confectionery Company which… 2 exemplares
Roses 2 exemplares
The Fireside Book of Verse 2 exemplares
Lift Up Your Heart 1 exemplar
Robert Frost's Poetry 1 exemplar
Hopi Indian Cradle Song 1 exemplar
The Dog of Pompeii 1 exemplar
the magic tree: stories & people in poetry 1 exemplar
Your lucky stars 1 exemplar
American Poems 1 exemplar
Ther Golden Treasury of Poetry 1 exemplar
First Love, a Lyric Sequence 1 exemplar
Words of Wisdom 1 exemplar
Palgrave's The Golden Treasury 1 exemplar
Modern British Poetry Mid - Century Edition 1 exemplar
Barchester Towers 1 exemplar
GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. Edited by Louis & Bryna Untermeyer. Illustrated by Lucille Corcos. (1980) 1 exemplar
The Poetry of Heinrich Heine 1 exemplar
James Branch Cabell : the Man and His Masks 1 exemplar
Ten Brothers {poem} 1 exemplar
New songs for new voices 1 exemplar
Food and drink 1 exemplar
American Poetry--A Miscellany, 1925 1 exemplar
The Greedy Fox and the Elusive Grapes [poem] 1 exemplar
The Boy and the Wolf {poem} 1 exemplar
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám 1 exemplar
The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan 1 exemplar
The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan, Now Retold...With Illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson. 1 exemplar
Westwind Songs 1 exemplar
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1 exemplar
New Modern American & British Poetry 1 exemplar
The Heart 1 exemplar
The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan 1 exemplar
The Magic Circle 1 exemplar
"---and Other Poets," 1 exemplar
Collected parodies 1 exemplar
Aesop's Fables. A Giant Golden Book 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1120) — Editor, algumas edições; Editor, algumas edições — 5,167 exemplares
The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (Signet Classics) (1943) — Editor, algumas edições — 1,674 exemplares
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
The Poems of William Cullen Bryant Selected & Edited with a Commentary (1947) — Editor — 14 exemplares
The Complete Household Tales of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm (Volume II) — Editor, algumas edições — 4 exemplares
The Reviewer, Volume III, Numbers 1-12 (April 1922-July 1923) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Reviewer, Volume II, Numbers 1-6 (October 1921-March 1922) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Reviewer, Volume I, Numbers 1-12 (April-August 1921) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
McBride's Magazine, September 1915 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Saturday Review of Literature, Volume IX Number 38: Saturday, April 8, 1933 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1885-10-01
- Data de falecimento
- 1977-12-18
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Newtown, Connecticut, USA
- Educação
- left high school without graduating
- Ocupações
- poet
critic
editor - Prémios e menções honrosas
- U.S. Poet Laureate, 1961-1963
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1941)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- "Untermeyer ... continued to be active in campaigning for left-wing causes and as a result the FBI had been collecting a file of his activities. His name was also mentioned during the House of Un-American Activities Committee investigation into communist subversion. This was brought to the attention of the television industry and in 1951 Untermeyer was sacked from the television show and was blacklisted. Like many left-wing artists during this period, Untermeyer became a victim of McCarthyism.
"In his autobiography, Timebends - A Life (1987), Arthur Miller, explained how Untermeyer responded to this victimization: 'Louis went back to his apartment. Normally we ran into each other in the street once or twice a week or kept in touch every month or so, but I no longer saw him in the neighborhood or heard from him. Louis didn't leave his apartment for almost a year and a half. An overwhelming and paralyzing fear had risen him. More than a political fear, it was really that he had witnessed the tenuousness of human connection and it had left him in terror. He had always loved a lot and been loved, especially on the TV program where his quips were vastly appreciated, and suddenly, he had been thrown into the street, abolished.'"
Married four times, to Jean, Virginia, Esther, then Bryna.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 173
- Also by
- 45
- Membros
- 5,021
- Popularidade
- #4,983
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 55
- ISBN
- 161
- Línguas
- 1
- Marcado como favorito
- 3