#louis untermeyer

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Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), 'Flame', ''Burning Bush'' by Louis Untermeyer, 1928 Source

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Milestone Monday

Today, February 26th, is national Tell a Fairy Tale Day and for those needing some inspiration, we’re sharing Grimm’s Fairy Tales edited by Louis (1885-1977) and Bryna Untermeyer (1909-1985). This four-volume set was published in 1962 by The Limited Editions Club (LEC) and contains the complete collection of stories accompanied by Andrew Lang’s essay on the origin of the tales. It is illustrated by the prolific modern primitivist painter Lucille Corcos (1908-1973) who created vibrant full-page watercolors printed by color lithography and monochromatic drawings interspersed within the text.  

The Brothers Grimm studied folklore and German literature while attending university and first began collecting oral folk tales at the request of two poet friends who wanted to publish a book on the matter. In 1812 the first edition of Kinder-und Hausmärchen (Children and Household Tales) was published containing 86 stories, a second volume with an additional 70 stories followed in 1815. Their collection would become one of the most influential works of folklore in the world, translated into over 160 languages and countless adaptations for opera, film, and a range of media. We also happen to hold the first English-language edition of Kinder-und Hausmärchen, a two-volume set entitled German Popular Stories, published in London, 1823-1826, with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

Our copy of the LEC's Grimm’s Fairy Tales was a gift from Loryn Romadka from the collection of longtime LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin. 

Read other Milestone Monday posts here! 

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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"What are we bound for? What’s the yield / Of all this energy and waste? / Why do we spend ourselves and build / With such an empty haste?"

Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!

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The Place You're From and the Place You're At

Niall Williams, Louis Untermeyer, Julie Beck: 'The Place You're From and the Place You're At'

[Image: “What Do Now? (Tallahasssee, Florida),” by John E. Simpson. (Photo shared here under a Creative Commons License; for more information, see this page at RAMH.)] From whiskey river: We’re a race of elsewhere people. That’s what makes us the best saints and the best poets and the best musicians and the world’s worst bankers. That’s why wherever you go you’ll see some of us — and it makes…

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A poem by Louis Untermeyer

He Goads Himself

And was it I that hoped to rattle A broken lance against iron laws? Was it I that asked to go down in battle For a lost cause?

Fool! Must there be new deaths to cry for When only rottenness survives? Here are enough lost causes to die for Through twenty lives.

What have we learned? That the familiar Lusts are the only things that endure; That for an age grown blinder and sillier, There is no cure.

And man? Free of one kind of fetter, He runs to gaudier shackles and brands; Deserving, for all his groans, no better Than he demands.

The flat routine of bed and barter, Birth and burial, holds the lot… Was it I that dreamed of being a martyr? How—and for what?

Yet, while this unconcern runs stronger As life shrugs on without meaning or shape, Let me know flame and the teeth of hunger; Storm—not escape.

Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977)

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"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

- Robert Frost writing to Louis Untermeyer in 1916

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George Wolfe Plank (1883-1965), ''-and Other Poets'' by Louis Untermeyer, 1916 Source

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Publishers' Binding Thursday

For this week's Publishers' Binding Thursday book, I went searching in the catalog to see if we had any books designed by well-known designer Margaret Armstrong. There were several that came up and I went to the stacks to investigate. I found this lovely book and was excited to see how vibrant the colors are and what good shape the cover is in! However, upon a closer look, the cover is clearly signed "ELF" and not with Margaret Armstrong's characteristic overlapping "MA."

Try though I might, I cannot find any information about who E.L.F. may be, because searching in Google just turns up results about elves! I've also searched several digital collections to no avail, so if anyone has information about who E.L.F. might be I would greatly appreciate it!

The book is The Man Behind the Book by American author, professor of English Literature, Presbyterian clergyman, and diplomat Henry Van Dyke, Jr. (1852-1933). It was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1929. Van Dyke taught English Literature at Princeton, his alma mater, and was Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, mainly on the strength of his friendship with fellow Princetonian Woodrow Wilson. Van Dyke was also friends with Helen Keller and officiated Mark Twain's funeral.

The cover is just lovely, with gold, purple, and teal decorations featuring grapes and grape vines alongside some tulips. The cloth is a deep navy, which really allows the shiny gold and the bright purple and teal stand out. The spine is a bit worn, but repeats the same motifs used on the cover of grapes and grape vines stamped in gold along with the title and author's name.

We believe this copy may have belonged to American poet, editor, and critic Louis Untermeyer because it contains a letter from Henry Van Dyke to Untermeyer. The letter and the envelope in which it was sent are pasted into the front cover of the book. The address on the envelope is vague, just "Mr. Louis Untermeyer, Elizabethtown, Adirondack Mountain, New York." The envelope is dated and time stamped September 12, 1931 at 7:00 p.m.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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Armed Services Editions

Armed Services Editions were pocket-sized editions of literary works distributed to service members during World War II. There was a book written about them that has been on my TBR list for way too long: When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win WWII (2015) by Molly Guptill Manning. Publisher’s blurb: Published December 2nd 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt When America entered…

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PRIDE MONTH CELEBRATION WEEK Day 5: Ship Burt G. and Irving B. in SEVERANCE quote from "The Dark Chamber" by Louis Untermeyer

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c!crimeboys in race the sunrise down the highway except it only makes sense to me

(mainly bc i have theories as to what happens)

Credits:

race the sunrise down the highway; chapter 1 (1, 3) // ashrayus // scpkid // race the sunrise down the highway; chapter 2 (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10) // iancito0x // Kylo8 // neptunecowboy // Daniel Lincoln // Holly Warburton // nighterns // bluebirbbunderscore // Holly Warburton // Ben Williamson // Fail better, heal faster, Big Brother // @routeriver (x) // wekillitwithfire // The Oh Hellos, Bitter Water // race the sunrise down the highway; chapter 3 (14, 15) // itzerya //thunderbottle // hivemindscape // Rainer Maria Rilke // Louis Untermeyer, Business of Ravens // race the sunrise down the highway; chapter 5 (18, 19) // unknown // race the sunrise down the highway; chapter 6 (20, 21, 22, 25) // unknown // galaghiel // The Crane Wives, Little Soldiers // RiceCake Bibi, Forgiveness // The Oh Hellos, Like the Dawn // unknown // Chuck Palahniuk, Choke // Radical Face, Always Gold // The Last of Us // araekni // Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves // @wilburfishfucker (x)

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Ewan Roy as Surrogate Grandfather and his Role in Greg's Demise

Masterlist

One Sweet Love by Sara Bariles-38

Emily Dickinson-6

The Celebration: How Long Can This Go On?by Michael Koresky-5

Basket Case by Sara Bareiles-24,32

Coney Island by Taylor Swift-18

Invisible Girls: The Truth about Sexual Abuse by Patti Feuereisen and Caroline Pincus-37

Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman-33

Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina by The Mountain Goats-14

Pericles; Cymbeline; The Two Noble Kinsman-21?

Inhibited by Louis Untermeyer-29

Family Ties by-39

Succesion

1.5-1,2,7,8,9,10,12,13,25

2.9-3

1.7-4

1.6-11,15,16,17,22,23,26,34,35,36

1.1/1.2?-19,20

3.5-27,28,30,31

3.9-37

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Cate Blanchett named son after convicted child sex offender Roman Polanski | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/cate-blanchett-named-son-after-convicted-child-sex-offender-roman-polanski/news-story/7643a75ab10a08d35b781b1f07043c59#:~:text=Blanchett%20said%20Roman%20was%20named,famous%20American%20novelist)%20Dashiell%20Hammett.

https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/98319492.html

Blanchett said Roman was named after the disgraced director, who fled the United States in 1978 before he was due to be sentenced for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

“You run out of ideas by the time you get to number three,” she joked.

“Dashiell came from (famous American novelist) Dashiell Hammett.

“Roman, I don’t know... Polanski. But it’s also the French word for book.”

Polanski has been living in exile in France since 1978, despite multiple attempts by the United States to extradite him.

Blanchett previously came under fire in 2014 after starring in Woody Allen’s film Blue Jasmine.

Allen’s daughter Dylan Farrow wrote an open letter to Blanchett, criticising her for working with the director despite her claims of child sexual abuse.

Tough love ... Cate won an Oscar for Blue Jasmine despite being criticised for working with Woody Allen. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Tough love ... Cate won an Oscar for Blue Jasmine despite being criticised for working with Woody Allen. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

“What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?” she wrote.

In response, Blanchett said it had “obviously been a long and painful situation for the family and I hope they find some resolution and peace”.

Roman Polanski

Ignatius, Captain Underpants

"According to the American Library Association, the Captain Underpants books were reported as some of the most banned and challenged books in the United States between 2000 and 2009 as well as between 2010 and 2019. The books were named one of the top ten most banned and challenged books in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2013 and 2018.

The Captain Underpants series was explicitly banned in some schools for "insensitivity, offensive language, encouraging disruptive behavior, LGBTQIA+ issues, violence, being unsuited to the age group, sexually explicit content, anti-family content, as well as encouraging children to disobey authority."

Dashiell Hammett....

Hammett devoted much of his life to left-wing activism. He was a strong antifascist throughout the 1930s, and in 1937 joined the Communist Party. On May 1, 1935, Hammett joined the League of American Writers (1935–1943), whose members included Lillian Hellman, Alexander Trachtenberg of International Publishers, Frank Folsom, Louis Untermeyer, I. F. Stone, Myra Page, Millen Brand, Clifford Odets, and Arthur Miller. (Members were largely either Communist Party members or fellow travelers. He suspended his anti-fascist activities when, as a member (and in 1941 president) of the League of American Writers, he served on its Keep America Out of War Committee in January 1940 during the period of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

Especially in Red Harvest, literary scholars have seen a Marxist critique of the social system. One Hammett biographer, Richard Layman, calls such interpretations "imaginative", but he nonetheless objects to them, since, among other reasons, no "masses of politically dispossessed people" are in this novel. Herbert Ruhm found that contemporary left-wing media already viewed Hammett's writing with skepticism, "perhaps because his work suggests no solution: no mass-action... no individual salvation... no Emersonian reconciliation and transcendence".

In a letter of November 25, 1937, to his daughter Mary, Hammett referred to himself and others as "we reds". He confirmed, "in a democracy all men are supposed to have an equal say in their government", but added that "their equality need not go beyond that." He also found, "under socialism there is not necessarily... any leveling of incomes."

Hellman wrote that Hammett was "most certainly" a Marxist, though a "very critical Marxist" who was "often contemptuous of the Soviet Union" and "bitingly sharp about the American Communist Party", to which he was nevertheless loyal. 

At the beginning of 1942, he wrote the screenplay of Watch on the Rhine, based on Hellman's successful play, which received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay). But that year the Oscar went to Casablanca. In early 1942, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hammett again enlisted in the United States Army. Because he was 48 years old, had tuberculosis, and was a Communist, Hammett later stated he had "a hell of a time" being inducted into the Army. However, biographer Diane Johnson suggests that confusion over Hammett's forename was the reason he was able to re-enlist. He served as an enlisted man in the Aleutian Islands and initially worked on cryptanalysis on the island of Umnak. For fear of his radical tendencies, he was transferred to the Headquarters Company where he edited an Army newspaper entitled The Adakian. In 1943, while still a member of the military, he co-authored The Battle of the Aleutians with Cpl. Robert Colodny, under the direction of an infantry intelligence officer, Major Henry W. Hall. While in the Aleutians, he developed emphysema.

After the war, Hammett returned to political activism, "but he played that role with less fervour than before". He was elected president of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) on June 5, 1946, at a meeting held at the Hotel Diplomat in New York City, and "devoted the largest portion of his working time to CRC activities".

In 1946, a bail fund was created by the CRC "to be used at the discretion of three trustees to gain the release of defendants arrested for political reasons." The trustees were Hammett, who was chairman, Robert W. Dunn, and Frederick Vanderbilt Field.

The CRC was designated a Communist front group by the US Attorney General. Hammett endorsed Henry A. Wallace in the 1948 United States presidential election..."

'Blanchett and Stewart joined fellow Cannes jury members, Ava DuVernay, Khadja Nin, and Léa Seydoux, in the South of France for the start of this year's festival earlier this week. Not only did we see both Blanchett and Stewart donning spring-inspired pantsuits we now need in our lives, but we were, more importantly, blessed with photos of Stewart staring tenderly at Blanchett. What a time to be alive."