Untermeyer.
Poetry, 14 ('19): 47. (Amy Lowell.)
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918, 1921.
+Louis Untermeyer+--poet, critic.
Born in New York City, 1885. Educated at the De Witt Clinton High School,
New York. An accomplished pianist and professional designer of jewelry.
Married Jean Starr (q.v.), 1907. Business man. Associate editor of _The
Seven Arts_ (cf. _Poetry_, 9 ['16-'17]: 214). Contributing editor to _The
Liberator_. Socialist.
Mr. Untermeyer's early verse was influenced by Heine, Housman, and
Henley, especially the last; but he has broken away from them to an
individual expression of social passions.