"I thought that the poets in the anthologies were the only real poets, that their being in the anthologies was proof of this, though some were classified as "great" and others as "minor." I owed much to those anthologies: Silver Pennies; the constant outflow of volumes edited by Louis Untermeyer; The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children; Palgrave's Golden Treasury; the Oxford Book of English Verse. But I had no idea that they reflected the taste of a particular time or of particular kinds of people."
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Adrienne Rich Arts of the Possible (2001)
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Louis Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyer (October 1, 1885 – December 18, 1977) was an American author, poet, anthologist, and editor.
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