Anthology History
How poetry anthologies shaped literary canons, reading habits, and what gets remembered.
The Birth of the English Anthology
From Tottel's Miscellany (1557) to Percy's Reliques (1765) — how the printed anthology became a literary form and cultural force.
Victorian Anthologies and the Canon
How Palgrave, Quiller-Couch, and their contemporaries defined "English poetry" for a century — and who they left out.
The Anthology Wars: Modernism to Now
Allen's New American Poetry vs. Hall's New Poets of England and America. How rival anthologies became ideological battlegrounds.