Louis Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyerwas an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 October 1885
defining unforgettable term
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.
life-is-like life-is asks
She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.
spring vowels soil
Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.
hymns miracle bread
What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread?