Anthology History
How poetry anthologies shaped literary canons, reading habits, and what gets remembered.
The Birth of the English Anthology
The English poetry anthology was born not from a single genius but from a technological revolution - the printing press.
Victorian Anthologies and the Canon
Victorian anthologies, above all Palgrave's Golden Treasury (1861), did not merely collect poems - they constructed the English literary canon.
The Anthology Wars: Modernism to Now
Poetry anthologies have been battlegrounds for cultural authority. Each makes a claim about what poetry should be.