Person Detail: Louis Untermeyer

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General Information:
Full Name: Louis Untermeyer
Biography: (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.
Author's Timeline:
1885		New York County Louis Untermeyer was born in Manhattan, New York, in 1885.
1911		(Unknown) County First Love (Pub: French. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry.
1919		(Unknown) County The New Era in American Poetry (Pub: Holt, reprinted, Scholarly Press, 1970. ISBN: ) Collection of essays.
1922		(Unknown) County Heavens (Pub: Harcourt. ISBN: ) Collection of parodies.
1929		Essex County Untermeyer had a home in the Adirondack Mountains near Elizabethtown, New York.
1931		(Unknown) County American Poetry from the Beginning to Whitman (Pub: Harcourt. ISBN: ) Anthology edited by Untermeyer.
1931		(Unknown) County The Book of Living Verse
1935		(Unknown) County Selected Poems and Parodies Collection of poetry and parodies.
1939		(Unknown) County From Another World Autobiography.
1950		(Unknown) County New Modern American and British Poetry
1960		(Unknown) County Lives of the Poets Prose.
1963		(Unknown) County The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer
1977		(Unknown) County Louis Untermeyer died in Newtown, Connecticut, in 1977.