Untermeyer, Louis. From Another World: The Autobiography of Louis Untermeyer. Harcourt, Brace, 1939.
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Louis Untermeyer
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Anna Wickham | She helped the poet Stephen Spender
early in his career by bringing his work to the attention of Louis Untermeyer
. |
| Friends, Associates | Edna St Vincent Millay | During her first stay in New York she had met Sara Teasdale
and Louis
and Jean Starr Untermeyer
. During her time at Vassar, Caroline B. Dow
gradually became her patron, Aunt Calline to her... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Wickham | AW
's vibrant personality attracted many friends, several of whom were writers and artists. By all accounts, she was an extraordinarily vital and charismatic woman. David Garnett
describes her as a a very handsome, big... |
| Literary responses | Anna Wickham | AW
's first major champion was American poet and editor Louis Untermeyer
, who greatly admired her terse, pungently flavored lyrics Untermeyer, Louis. “Anna Wickham”. Modern British Poetry, Mid-Century Edition, edited by Louis Untermeyer, Harcourt, Brace, 1950, pp. 276-7. 277 Untermeyer, Louis. “Anna Wickham”. Modern British Poetry, Mid-Century Edition, edited by Louis Untermeyer, Harcourt, Brace, 1950, pp. 276-7. 276 |
| Literary responses | Anna Wickham | Untermeyer
's introduction praised AW
's acid overtones of irony, Untermeyer, Louis, and Anna Wickham. “Introduction”. The Contemplative Quarry; and, The Man with a Hammer, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921, p. vii - xv. ix, x |
| Literary responses | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Louis Untermeyer
, an early supporter of STW
's poetry, commented favourably on her marked accent,half-modern, half-archaic blend of naivete and erudition, and the low-pitched but tart tone of voice. qtd. in Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, 1982, pp. xi - xxiii; 275. xv |
| Literary responses | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Robert Frost
found the book disturbing because of the physicality of some of the poems, writing in a letter to Louis Untermeyer
: Don't you find the contemplation of their kind of collusion emasculating? I... |
| Literary responses | Valentine Ackland | Robert Frost
, too, the volume's dedicatee, wrote to Louis Untermeyer
: Don't you find the contemplation of their kind of collusion emasculating? I am chilled to the marrow. qtd. in Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1989. 133 |
| Literary responses | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | The book was reviewed by Louis Untermeyer
in the Dial. The American Review of Reviews propagated the opinion that these sonnets would take their place beside Mrs. Browning
's 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'because... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Anna Wickham | Married had two sons—tried very hard to be a housekeeper—got so irritated that I wrote 900 poems in 4 years. . . . I am making a second domestic attempt—am very much afraid that it... |
| Author summary | Anna Wickham | Anna Wickham was a prolific poet of the earlier twentieth century: in addition to several hundred published poems, more than a thousand remain unpublished. Hepburn, James et al. “Editor’s Note and Acknowledgements”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, p. xxv - xxvi. xxv |
| Textual Features | Anna Wickham | AW
had no qualms, however, about proclaiming herself a woman poet, and several of her poems are passionately, even fiercely feminist. She once suggested that a poem entitled A Note on Method should open all... |
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Texts
Untermeyer, Louis. “Anna Wickham”. Modern British Poetry, Mid-Century Edition, edited by Louis Untermeyer, Harcourt, Brace, 1950, pp. 276-7.
Untermeyer, Louis. From Another World: The Autobiography of Louis Untermeyer. Harcourt, Brace, 1939.
Untermeyer, Louis, and Anna Wickham. “Introduction”. The Contemplative Quarry; and, The Man with a Hammer, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921, p. vii - xv.
Wickham, Anna, and Louis Untermeyer. The Contemplative Quarry; and, The Man with a Hammer. Harcourt, Brace, 1921.