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series was trend-setting; it showed the potential success of publishing an identifiable group of younger poets marked out as a 'generation'. It was followed by numerous collections from the 'stable' of some literary editor, or collated from a given publication, or labelled in some fashion as 'poems
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Since publishers generally found anthology publication a more flexible medium than the collection of a single poet's work, and indeed rang innumerable changes on the idea as a way of marketing poetry, publication in an anthology (in the right company) became at times a sought-after form of
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Also, whilst not connected with poetry, publishers have produced collective works of fiction and non-fiction from a number of authors and used the term anthology to describe the collective nature of the text. These have been in a number of subjects, including
974:, a Latin derivative for a collection of flowers, was used in medieval Europe for an anthology of Latin proverbs and textual excerpts. Shortly before anthology had entered the language, English had begun using florilegium as a word for such a collection. 989:, Heidelberg in 1606, is a collection of Greek poems and epigrams that was based on the lost 10th Century Byzantine collection of Constantinus Cephalas, which in turn was based on older anthologies. In The Middle Ages, European collections of 893:
is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors. There are also thematic and genre-based anthologies.
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was published in 1774 and was a mainstay of 18th Century schoolrooms. Important nineteenth century anthologies included Palgrave's
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in 1557 in London and ran to many editions in the sixteenth century. A widely read series of political anthologies,
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became popular, bringing together extracts from various Christian and pagan philosophical texts. These evolved into
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In the twentieth century, anthologies became an important part of poetry publishing for a number of reasons. For
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of the year'. Academic publishing also followed suit, with the continuing success of the Quiller-Couch
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The concept of 'modern verse' was fostered by the appearance of the phrase in titles such as the
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in 1928, arguing that they were based on commercial rather than artistic interests.
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encouraging other collections not limited to modern poetry. Not everyone approved.
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recognition for poets. The self-definition of movements, dating back at least to
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became a bestseller, plugging into the countercultural attitudes of teenagers.
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In Britain, one of the earliest national poetry anthologies to appear was
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tradition, an anthology was a recognized form of compilation of a given
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The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture
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The word entered the English language in the 17th century, from the
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The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists
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Burke, Victoria (2013). "Recent Studies in Commonplace Books".
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The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H.D. and The Imagists
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James Bridges (Independent Scholar) (31 July 2002).
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Collection of creative works chosen by the compiler
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