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(1885-1977) Poet, anthologist. Louis Untermeyer was born in Manhattan, New York. Untermeyer worked with Max Eastman, John Reed, and Floyd Dell on the leftist publication “The Masses.” Untermeyer was blacklisted along with many others during McCarthyism. He was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1961 to 1963. He was married to the poet Jean Starr Untermeyer.

Full Name

Louis Untermeyer

Locations

Essex

Author's Timeline


Unknown

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Including Horace

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Heavens

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These Times

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The Masses

1885

BIRTH

Louis Untermeyer was born in Manhattan, New York, in 1885.

1911

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First Love
French.

Collection of poetry.

1919

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The New Era in American Poetry
Holt, reprinted, Scholarly Press, 1970.

Collection of essays.

1922

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Heavens
Harcourt.

Collection of parodies.

1923

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This Singing World


Anthology.

1929

RESIDENCE

Untermeyer had a home in the Adirondack Mountains near Elizabethtown, New York.

1931

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American Poetry from the Beginning to Whitman
Harcourt.

Anthology edited by Untermeyer.

1931

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The Book of Living Verse

1935

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Selected Poems and Parodies


Collection of poetry and parodies.

1939

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From Another World


Autobiography.

1950

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New Modern American and British Poetry

1960

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Lives of the Poets


Prose.

1963

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The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer

1977

DEATH

Louis Untermeyer died in Newtown, Connecticut, in 1977.

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