anthology
- a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or on the same subject: an anthology of Elizabethan drama; an anthology of modern philosophy.
- a collection of selected writings by one author.
Origin of anthology
Related Words for anthology
album, compendium, selection, garland, omnibus, compilation, treasury, digestExamples from the Web for anthology
Contemporary Examples of anthology
The trend led to a resurgence of anthology television, and renewed interest in The Twilight Zone.
The court house is now the Anthology Archive and the firehouse is a Chinese community center.
Pryor Dodge's Two-Wheeled Obsession Is Now a Museum of Bike HistoryAnthony Haden-Guest
September 15, 2014
In December 2012, Ebenstein launched a Kickstarter for her anthology.
Brooklyn’s Museum of Death: Inside Morbid Anatomy’s House of Intriguing HorrorsNina Strochlic
July 10, 2014
From the start, creator Nic Pizzolatto designed it as an anthology series.
Today, Cunard is best known as the compiler and publisher of Negro: An Anthology (1934).
Historical Examples of anthology
To select an anthology from his work were surely the pleasantest of tasks.
Views and ReviewsWilliam Ernest Henley
Selections from these, arranged in chronological order, appear in this anthology.
Tudor and Stuart Love SongsVarious
For these reasons we have admitted few punning epigrams into this anthology, and those only as examples of a faulty kind.
These two contributors to the "Others" Anthology write logopoeia.
InstigationsEzra Pound
The anthology displays also Mr. Williams' praiseworthy opacity.
InstigationsEzra Pound
anthology
- a collection of literary passages or works, esp poems, by various authors
- any printed collection of literary pieces, songs, works of art, etc
Word Origin for anthology
Word Origin and History for anthology
1630s, "collection of poetry," from Latin anthologia, from Greek anthologia "collection of small poems and epigrams by several authors," literally "flower-gathering," from anthos "a flower" (see anther) + logia "collection, collecting," from legein "gather" (see lecture (n.)). Modern sense (which emerged in Late Greek) is metaphoric, "flowers" of verse, small poems by various writers gathered together.