From this reading of poetry in anthologies the boy might go to the carefully edited and selected volumes of the great poets in the Golden Treasury Series.
In the later age of Rome it became the fashion to make anthologies and compilations, and it is through such collections that the majority of classical authors are known.
One of the most curious of these anthologies is that made by Athenæus about the beginning of the third century A.
Sidenote: Anthologies are Valuable Text-Books] The student will find it very helpful to have at hand one or two small volumes of selected poems by various authors.
Such anthologies often give, in a compact form, some of the choicest of the writers' verses; and this saves the novice's time in wading through some work that may be indifferent in search of the best.
For the works of minor writers some of the anthologies named above are necessary; but the major authors may be read to better advantage in various inexpensive texts edited for class use.
Typical selections from minor authors of the period, in Readings from American Literature and other anthologies (see "Selections" in General Bibliography).
For general reference such anthologies as Manly's English Poetry and English Prose are useful.
Sumer is icumen in, Lenten is come with love to toune, Of one that is so fair and bright, and numberless other songs with which recent anthologieshave made everyone familiar are sufficient evidence of this.
Anthologies have been multiplied like all other books, and in the main they have done much good and no harm.
He would say that if the lyrics of subtle and passionate emotion and the drab stories of sex experience that make up so many pages of modern anthologies represent a renewal and extension of youth, it was not his youth.
There was more good poetry, neither complex, nor erotic, nor esoteric, written before our generation than even a maker of anthologies is likely to read.
The Anthologiesof Diabolical Literature may be considered, I trust, without any risk of offence to any theological or philosophical prepossession.
It was the premature predecessor, also, of a number of such anthologies which were published during the latter half of Elizabeth's reign.
The lyrics were published sometimes in collections by single authors, sometimes in the series of anthologies which succeeded to Tottel's 'Miscellany.
In the meantime existing anthologies may be used with the present volume.
In this connection should be noted the supplementary list of poets whose names have not been included in our list but whose work can be studied in one or more of the anthologies indicated.
Harold Monro The publisher of the various anthologies of Georgian Poetry, Harold Monro, was born in Brussels in 1879.
Editor and compiler of The Book of Elizabethan Verse, The Book of Georgian Verse, The Book of Restoration Verse and a series of yearly anthologies of magazine verse.
It would require a separate work to pick out from the two Anthologies ascribed to Solomon (the First, Proverbs x.
We hear from "the lips of knowledge" a reaffirmation of the "excellent things" said in the Anthologies about the superiority of Wisdom to gems.
But anthologies are not always representative, and nobody knew better than Lucia that the best translations sometimes fail to give the spirit of the original.
And now at four and twenty she had what is called a beautiful view of life; with that exciting book which her father kept so sedulously out of her reach she was acquainted as it were through anthologies and translations.
Yet in selections from Johnson's notes to Shakespeare that appear in anthologies some of these offending notes have been reprinted without any indication that the editors knew of their later retraction.
And, what bears constant repetition, the anthologies draw their notes from the 1765 edition, neglecting altogether Johnson's revisions.
For the most part modernanthologies have, in turn, drawn on collections put together at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the next, when the ideal for inclusion was essentially that of “polite taste.
In short, the anthologies we depend upon are out of date.
These two anthologies have been edited on more or less conventional lines, but they contain several important stories which are not readily accessible, and I can commend them as texts for students of the short story.
This collection is valuable as a supplement to existing anthologies because it wisely leaves for other editors the most familiar stories and concentrates on introducing less known writers to the English-speaking public.
That passage deserves to go into all anthologies of English prose henceforth compiled.
But in periodicals and anthologies there has appeared much new and genuine work.
There are few readers of anthologies who do not find, on mature consideration, that they could have done the work better themselves, and this would be just if, in fact, anthologists worked only for themselves.
We have already indicated the importance of the citations in early Arabic anthologiesincorporated from Persian historical works.
In Arabic Anthologies especially of the character of what is known as Furstenspiegel the maxims of this wise Wazir are very frequently quoted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anthologies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
