anthologist
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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
Joining Simon & Schuster, he became an assistant to the anthologist Louis Untermeyer, helping him prepare, among other things, a Whitman compilation.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2014
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
As a poet, however, she is virtually forgotten – ignored even – by the 20th century anthologists dedicated to the recovery and re-evaluation of neglected women poets.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2010
The Arabic grammarians and anthologists began their work about the middle of the eighth century.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
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