Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977)
Auteur de The Golden Treasury of Poetry
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Crédit image: English: American writer, poet, literary critic, and editor Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977)
Séries
Œuvres de Louis Untermeyer
New Enlarged Pocket Anthology of Robert Frost's Poems (1971) — Directeur de publication — 453 exemplaires
The Golden Treasury of Children's Literature Set (1961) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 209 exemplaires
Grimm's Fairy Tales (Collectors Edition) The 100 Greatest Stories Ever Written (1810) — Directeur de publication — 169 exemplaires
A treasury of laughter,: Consisting of humorous stories, poems, essays, tall tales, jokes, boners, epigrams, memorable… (1946) — Directeur de publication — 164 exemplaires
Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry (1656) 86 exemplaires
Makers of the modern world; the lives of ninety-two writers, artists, scientists, statesmen, inventors, philosophers,… (1955) 50 exemplaires
Poems: Selections from the Golden Treasury of Poetry (1959) — Directeur de publication — 29 exemplaires
The firebringer, and other great stories; fifty-five legends that live forever (1968) 23 exemplaires
The Golden Treasury of Children's Literature Volume 04: Old Friends and Lasting Favorites (1962) — Directeur de publication — 13 exemplaires
Treasury of Great Humor; Including Wit, Whimsy and Satire from the Remote Past to the Present. (1972) 11 exemplaires
New Enlarged Pocket Anthology of Robert Frost's Poems 4 exemplaires
The New Adam 3 exemplaires
More Poems 3 exemplaires
Great Poems from Chaucer to Whitman 3 exemplaires
Time for Peace: Verses from the Bible 2 exemplaires
The Golden Trashery of Ogden Nash 2 exemplaires
New Enlarged Pocket Anthology of Robert Frost's Poems 2 exemplaires
The Fireside Book of Verse 2 exemplaires
A century of candymaking, 1847-1947; the story of the origin and growth of New England Confectionery Company which… 2 exemplaires
Roses 2 exemplaires
Collected parodies 2 exemplaires
�sop's fables 1 exemplaire
James Branch Cabell : the Man and His Masks 1 exemplaire
Hopi Indian Cradle Song 1 exemplaire
The Dog of Pompeii 1 exemplaire
American Poems 1 exemplaire
Ther Golden Treasury of Poetry 1 exemplaire
Your lucky stars 1 exemplaire
Modern American and Modern British Poetry 1 exemplaire
The Poetry of Heinrich Heine 1 exemplaire
Words of Wisdom 1 exemplaire
Palgrave's The Golden Treasury 1 exemplaire
GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. Edited by Louis & Bryna Untermeyer. Illustrated by Lucille Corcos. (1980) 1 exemplaire
Robert Frost's Poetry 1 exemplaire
Modern British Poetry Mid - Century Edition 1 exemplaire
Barchester Towers 1 exemplaire
ROAD NOT TAKEN AN INTRODUCTION TO ROBERT FROST 1 exemplaire
The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan, Now Retold...With Illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson. 1 exemplaire
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám 1 exemplaire
First Love, a Lyric Sequence 1 exemplaire
the magic tree: stories & people in poetry 1 exemplaire
Lift Up Your Heart 1 exemplaire
Ten Brothers {poem} 1 exemplaire
Letter: from Louis Untermeyer to A. Grove Day 1 exemplaire
Food and drink 1 exemplaire
American Poetry--A Miscellany, 1925 1 exemplaire
The Greedy Fox and the Elusive Grapes [poem] 1 exemplaire
The Boy and the Wolf {poem} 1 exemplaire
"---and Other Poets," 1 exemplaire
New songs for new voices 1 exemplaire
The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan 1 exemplaire
Westwind Songs 1 exemplaire
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1 exemplaire
New Modern American & British Poetry 1 exemplaire
The Heart 1 exemplaire
The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan 1 exemplaire
& Other Poets [Hardcover] by Untermeyer, Louis 1 exemplaire
The Magic Circle 1 exemplaire
Aesop's Fables. A Giant Golden Book 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Omar Khayyams Rubaiyat. (1120) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions; Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 5,194 exemplaires
Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1890) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 590 exemplaires
The Love Poems of Elizabeth And Robert Browning (1994) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 231 exemplaires
The poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (The American poets) (1943) — Directeur de publication — 53 exemplaires
The Love Poems of Robert Herrick and John Donne (1948) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 45 exemplaires
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contributeur — 37 exemplaires
The College Survey of English Literature Shorter Edition, Revised (1942) — Directeur de publication — 25 exemplaires
Poems of Heinrich Heine (1923) — Traducteur, quelques éditions; Directeur de publication — 19 exemplaires
The Poems of William Cullen Bryant Selected & Edited with a Commentary (1947) — Directeur de publication — 14 exemplaires
The Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (1949) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 7 exemplaires
The Complete Household Tales of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm (Volume II) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 4 exemplaires
The Reviewer, Volume III, Numbers 1-12 (April 1922-July 1923) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Reviewer, Volume II, Numbers 1-6 (October 1921-March 1922) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Reviewer, Volume I, Numbers 1-12 (April-August 1921) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
McBride's Magazine, September 1915 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Saturday Review of Literature, Volume IX Number 38: Saturday, April 8, 1933 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1885-10-01
- Date de décès
- 1977-12-18
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Newtown, Connecticut, USA
- Études
- left high school without graduating
- Professions
- poet
critic
editor - Prix et distinctions
- U.S. Poet Laureate, 1961-1963
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1941) - Courte biographie
- "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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Critiques
This was a thrift-store pickup, mainly due to the interesting period artwork within. The most important thing about it, I guess, would be if I found it at least somewhat funny or not. I may have chuckled once maybe twice in the reading. To be honest most of the humor is definitely dated (it is from 1946 after all). However, a lot of the humor is based on the premise that women talk a lot and are emotional, men are the opposite. One example being A Pair of Sexes by Franklin P. Adams. A man talks on the phone in Part I which is a single line of dialogue. In Part II it's a woman on the phone and goes on for almost two pages. Basically, a visual joke when looking at the text. The intended effect the author was probably hoping for was that the reader would stop partways into the female dialogue and chuckle not having to continue but seeing the length. The effect on me was simply a sigh and a little anger at the (long dead) author for wasting my precious time.
Another premise that is "of its time" is humor aimed at immigrant and Jewish stereotypes with only a couple of bits of actual racist humor rearing its ugly head. The n-word does show up once (its "less" potent variant shows up about twice elsewhere) but I cannot remember which story, I hit that word and just skipped the story (most of these things just blend together into an antiquated mush really). Note that most, maybe all, of the authors whose work appears in this collection were born in the 19th-century and long dead by the time this book was published.
There are extracts from other (better) books such as a section on Mark Twain with The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County reprinted in full with extracts from Tom Sawyer (Tom Whitewashes the Fence) and Roughing It. There is also a bit from Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris (The Wonderful Tar Baby Story) and multiple episodes drawn from other novels and longer pieces.
Despite these hurdles I did find a few stories that I enjoyed reading. These would be: The Obituary Poet by Max Adeler (here's where I laughed), The Elephant Cutlet by Ludwig Bemelmans, the poem To a Small Boy Standing on My Shoes While I Am Wearing Them by Ogden Nash, Butch Minds the Baby by Damon Runyon, Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (hey it is a classic though I always picture Disney's cartoon while reading it), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber, and I did enjoy The Art of Insult Or, The Devastating Crusher section along with Edward Lear's Limericks and the More Limericks section.
Overall, it wasn't a bad buy for two bucks. There are a few bits of classic humor buried in here but overall it's stuff that has less aged badly rather than having been utterly left behind in the ashes of history. Even some of the daily life references were very alien to me. It also contains stories not just with the previously mentioned flaws but many are also very dialogue-heavy and written in very dense colloquialisms (Haw-haw, they speak funny, pfft) both of these things I hate with an overriding passion (I avoided the O.Henry section, besides I've read both the omnibus volumes of his work so I've paid my dues).
So, would I recommend this book to anybody? Not really. There's probably text from novels and other books that are hard or nearly impossible to find now and it suited my purpose for some light reading but the stuff I thought was a good read can be had elsewhere with more consistent quality in the text for the most part.… (plus d'informations)
Another premise that is "of its time" is humor aimed at immigrant and Jewish stereotypes with only a couple of bits of actual racist humor rearing its ugly head. The n-word does show up once (its "less" potent variant shows up about twice elsewhere) but I cannot remember which story, I hit that word and just skipped the story (most of these things just blend together into an antiquated mush really). Note that most, maybe all, of the authors whose work appears in this collection were born in the 19th-century and long dead by the time this book was published.
There are extracts from other (better) books such as a section on Mark Twain with The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County reprinted in full with extracts from Tom Sawyer (Tom Whitewashes the Fence) and Roughing It. There is also a bit from Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris (The Wonderful Tar Baby Story) and multiple episodes drawn from other novels and longer pieces.
Despite these hurdles I did find a few stories that I enjoyed reading. These would be: The Obituary Poet by Max Adeler (here's where I laughed), The Elephant Cutlet by Ludwig Bemelmans, the poem To a Small Boy Standing on My Shoes While I Am Wearing Them by Ogden Nash, Butch Minds the Baby by Damon Runyon, Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (hey it is a classic though I always picture Disney's cartoon while reading it), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber, and I did enjoy The Art of Insult Or, The Devastating Crusher section along with Edward Lear's Limericks and the More Limericks section.
Overall, it wasn't a bad buy for two bucks. There are a few bits of classic humor buried in here but overall it's stuff that has less aged badly rather than having been utterly left behind in the ashes of history. Even some of the daily life references were very alien to me. It also contains stories not just with the previously mentioned flaws but many are also very dialogue-heavy and written in very dense colloquialisms (Haw-haw, they speak funny, pfft) both of these things I hate with an overriding passion (I avoided the O.Henry section, besides I've read both the omnibus volumes of his work so I've paid my dues).
So, would I recommend this book to anybody? Not really. There's probably text from novels and other books that are hard or nearly impossible to find now and it suited my purpose for some light reading but the stuff I thought was a good read can be had elsewhere with more consistent quality in the text for the most part.… (plus d'informations)
This was a treasured book of Ed’s. I had it rebound for him while I was at the Athenaeum.
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