Cowell was a composer, to be sure, but also a teacher (his students included John Cage, George Gershwin, Lou Harrison, Burt Bacharach and Alan Hovhaness, as well as the editor of this anthology), a critic and publisher of new-music scores and a popularizer.
But, in one of the few reviews the anthology received, the critic raved, in syntax tortured on the rack of platitudes, about the range of Muhamed D.'s poetic skills and the courage he had shown by shedding the primitive Bosnian tradition for more modern forms.
"He was a literate, quarterly sort of writer, and to the extent that he had disciples, they wrote in quarterlies," Phillip Lopate, the essayist and editor of "American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now" (2006), said in an interview in 2011.
An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism.
A quirky mix of biography and anthology honors the pioneering rock critic.
Barbauld was also a literary critic, and her anthology of 18th-century British novels helped establish the canon as known today.
Three years later, he edited "Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend," an anthology of writings by Freud's critics.
The anthology dramas are remembered fondly by critics and cognoscenti who value the live theatre over contemporary television offerings; they are also the shows most often referred to in discussions of the "Golden Age" of television.
Nicholson Baker, whose 2011 book A House of Holes was described by critic Peter Conrad as "an anthology of orgies", confessed to being part of "the porn generation".
It shows how her author function was mediated by early modern male editors, by the Giolito anthologies, and by various publishers, literary critics, and modern artists.
