Louis Untermeyer
1885 - 1977
General Information
Bio
(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
LITWORK
Including Horace
Unknown
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Heavens
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These Times
Unknown
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The Masses
1885
BIRTH
Louis Untermeyer was born in Manhattan, New York, in 1885.
1911
LITWORK
First Love
French.
Collection of poetry.
French.
Collection of poetry.
1919
LITWORK
The New Era in American Poetry
Holt, reprinted, Scholarly Press, 1970.
Collection of essays.
Holt, reprinted, Scholarly Press, 1970.
Collection of essays.
1922
LITWORK
Heavens
Harcourt.
Collection of parodies.
Harcourt.
Collection of parodies.
1923
LITWORK
This Singing World
Anthology.
Anthology.
1929
RESIDENCE
Untermeyer had a home in the Adirondack Mountains near Elizabethtown, New York.
1931
LITWORK
American Poetry from the Beginning to Whitman
Harcourt.
Anthology edited by Untermeyer.
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.
Collection of poetry and parodies.
1939
LITWORK
From Another World
Autobiography.
Autobiography.
1950
LITWORK
New Modern American and British Poetry
1960
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Lives of the Poets
Prose.
Prose.
1963
LITWORK
The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer
1977
DEATH
Louis Untermeyer died in Newtown, Connecticut, in 1977.
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