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anthologist

anthologist

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A person who chooses and puts together poems or stories for a book
  • noun
  • /ænˈθɑlədʒɪst/
: antólogo
  • As an anthologist, she dedicated her time to gathering the finest works of poetry for her book.
  • critics and anthologists

Examples

  • Oscar Williams, the best anthologist of the post-war years on either side of the Atlantic, published it in his invaluable A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry, but I have never seen it anywhere else.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Once, an anthologist was putting together a book of poems by poets under forty.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Dannay was also a superb anthologist, breaking ground in a variety of fashions.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Take, for example, a biting entry on Genevieve Taggard, the poet and anthologist.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Ellery Queen was also a major critic, anthologist, and magazine editor (of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine).

    Academic text (2010)
  • When our poet hears this, and he has his ears screwed into anything he thought could help his career, he contacts the anthologist and says, "Why haven't you asked me for any poems?"

    Fiction book (1996)
  • The Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, established in 1993, is presented annually to an American poet or anthologist for the most outstanding new book of children's poetry published in the previous calendar year.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Rufus Wilmot Griswold, a well-known journalist and anthologist, also contributed to elevating Hawthorne's reputation by writing a favorable review of The House of the Seven Gables.

    Academic text (2004)
  • An anthologist carefully selected poems from various poets for her new collection.

  • The famous anthologist compiled stories from different cultures into an engaging anthology.

Surface Forms

anthologist singular
anthologists plural

Morphology

anthologist = anthology (transparent) = anthology + ist

Clear agentive formation: 'anthology' + '-ist' yields 'a person who compiles or edits anthologies'.

Etymology

Anthologist comes from the Greek root anthos meaning 'flower' and the ending -ist meaning 'a person who does something'. A helpful image is to think of an anthologist as someone who picks the best poems like flowers for a bouquet, which is why an anthologist gathers and edits works for an anthology.