It struck me, reading Sam's recent post, that many of the "underrated" poets would have become "forgotten poets" were it not for the great anthologists.
Without Arthur Quiller-Couch, for example, CP would probably have disappeared among the dust of peripheral pre-raphaelites, only arising occasionally when blown-upon by academics in search of an easy thesis. No P without Q, so to speak.
Last edited by Ann Drysdale; 04-30-2011 at 10:04 AM.
Reason: ...and no anthologists without a second "o" for that matter!
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