Louis Untermeyer — a remark

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“The poet is not a man who says things, but one who makes things happen.”

Emphasising poetry’s active effect on readers and the world · Literary criticism (commonly attributed)

About Louis Untermeyer

Louis Untermeyer

1 October 1885–18 December 1977

In the sprawling landscape of twentieth-century American letters, few figures cast as long or as peculiar a shadow as Louis Untermeyer. Born on October 1, 1885, in New York City, and dying ninety-two years later on December 18, 1977, in Newtown, Connecticut, Untermeyer occupied a unique position in American cultural…

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