Louis Untermeyer Quotes
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 jack assonance.
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| Birth: | 1st October, 1885 |
| Death: | 18th December, 1977 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Critic, Editor, Poet |
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Louis Untermeyer was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961.
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