General Info | TEI
| Name | Untermeyer, Louis |
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| ID | 493 |
| Gender | male |
| Lifespan | 1885-10-01 - 1977-12-18 |
| Professions | writer (Q36180), poet (Q49757), translator (Q333634), editor (Q1607826), critic (Q6430706), politician, diplomat, autobiographer |
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| Uri(s) |
https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/1_153 https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/2832/ https://d-nb.info/gnd/1055916253 |
| Notes | Louis Untermeyer was one of the most prolific editors of anthologies and recruited dozens of authors, with whom he had an extremely extensive correspondence, in the preparation of the approximately 100 books he edited. An abundance of surviving letters to poets and novelists is accessible in the Untermeyer Papers at the University of Delaware in Newark and in the Untermeyer Papers at Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington. |
| References | Jeffrey L. Sammons, “Retroactive Dissimilation: Louis Untermeyer, the ‘American Heine’,” in German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Reception, Adaptation, Transformation. Ed. Lynne Tatlock and Matt Erlin. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2005, 211-31. see Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, ch. 3 |
Relations
Institution
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | related >> wrote for | The Freeman |
| 1923 | — | related >> attended | Salzburg Festival |
| 1916 | — | established >> founder of | The Seven Arts |
| 1923-07 | — | related >> visited | Schloss Leopoldskron |
| 1924 | — | related >> visited | Theater in der Josefstadt |
Person
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Person |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | — | related >> acquainted with | Kellner, Leon |
| 1923 | — | related >> acquainted with | Schnitzler, Arthur |
| 1923 | — | related >> friendship with | Thompson, Dorothy |
| — | — | related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with | Fletcher, John Gould |
| — | — | related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with | Doolittle, Hilda |
| — | — | related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with | Williams, William Carlos |
| — | — | related >> friendship with >> close friendship with | Mencken, Henry L. |
| — | — | related >> collaborated with >> attempt to collaborate with | Reinhardt, Max |
| — | — | related >> acquainted with | Werfel, Franz |
| — | — | related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with | Eliot, T.S. |
Place
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Place |
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| 1977-12-18 | — | died in | Newton, CT |
| — | — | had a farm in | Adirondack Mountains, VT |
Work
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Work |
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| — | — | related >> wrote >> author of | Bygones: The Recollections of Louis Untermeyer |
| — | — | related >> wrote >> author of | From Another World |
| — | — | related >> wrote >> author of | Blue Rhine, Black Forest |
| — | 1937 | related >> translator of | Poems of Heinrich Heine |
| — | 1917 | related >> translator of | Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Poems |
| — | 1924 | related >> translator of | Masse Mensch |
| — | — | related >> translator of >> abandoned the translation of | Jaákobs Traum |
| — | — | related >> editor of | A Miscellany of American Poetry |
Label
| Label | Start | End | Label type | ISO Code |
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| Untermeyer, Charles G. | — | — | Legacy name (merge) | deu |
| American Heine | — | — | alternative name >> nickname | deu |
