Louis Untermeyer papers
Contributors: Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977, ed
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Library of Congress; Poets; Legends; American poetry; Description and travel; English poetry; Poetry; Correspondence, reminiscences
Description: Correspondence, writings, and notebooks.  Includes drafts or proofs of Modern American Poetry [and] Modern British Poetry (1962), Long Feud, Selected Poems (1962), The World's Great Stories; Fifty-five Legends that Live Forever (1964), Bygones; the Recollections of Louis Untermeyer (1965), and Labyrinth of Love (1965), based on Der Irrgarten der Liebe, by Otto Julius Bierbaum.  The notebooks pertain to travels in Europe and within the United States and to Untermeyer's years as Library of Congress poetry consultant (1961-1963).
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Louis Untermeyer, 1962-1970.

Gift, Helen-Anne Hilker, 1964.

Poet, critic, and editor.

Collection material in English.

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