anthologist
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His father was an editor, author and anthologist of poetry and children’s books, including “Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2018
One anthology to look up this fall comes from master anthologist Ellen Datlow, who takes on H.P.
From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 2016
The few who made it, like Goldsmith or that industrious novelist, anthologist, editor and translator, Tobias Smollett, might naturally feel ashamed of their sordid pasts.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2016
Lummis is an ideal guide for this endeavor — poet, anthologist, long-time L.A. literary booster — although perhaps the most essential aspect of the book is her generosity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2015
This last entry was written in red ink and decorated with a border of green-ink stars; the anthologist wished to emphasize its “personal significance.”
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
In her preface to “Inhabit the Poem,” she writes that the “popular belief that ‘gatekeepers’—publishers, university lecturers, anthologists, and advertisers—create the longevity of the authors we call ‘canonical’ is false.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
“I would prefer it if the textbook compilers and the anthologists would assume that I had written a few other poems.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
The anthologists are another reason for excitement: Ann VanderMeer is one of the best-regarded editors in the field – she’s a former editor-in-chief for Weird Tales who now acquires titles for Tor.com.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2016
John Mullan pointed out in the Guardian that, unlike many anthologists, Gross came up with the unfamiliar – less than 10% of his material had previously appeared in other Oxford anthologies.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2011
These anthologists commented on the poetical work and compared it with that of later periods, and with that of their contemporaries.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert
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