What we play is life.

Writer, poet, anthologist and editor                          

Selected Works:

Poetry:

Burning Bush
Challenge
Coal Fire
Disenchanted
First Love
Last Words Before Winter
Leviathan
Long Feud
Portrait Of A Machine
Questions At Night
Scarcely Spring
Summer Storm
Thanks
The New Adam
These Times
Richard Corey

Parodies:

Heavens
Including Horace
— And Other Poets - 1916
Collected Parodies - 1926

Autobiography:

From Another World - 1935
Bygones - 1965

Essays:

American Poetry Since 1900 - 19??
The Forms Of Poetry - 1926
Play in Poetry - 1938
Doorways to Poetry - 1938
The Lowest Form of Wit - 1947
The Pursuit of Poetry - 1969

Critical Collections:

The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1943
The Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman - 1949
The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer - 1963;
The Love Poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning - 1994
The Love Poems of Robert Herrick and John Donne - 1948

Fiction:

Moses - 1923
The Fat of the Cat and Other Stories
The Donkey of God and Other Stories - 1932
The Kitten Who Barked - 1962, illustrator: Lilian Obligado
The Second Christmas - 1964, illustrator: Louis Marak
Cat O' Nine Tales - 1971, illustrator: Lawrence DiFiori
The Dog of Pompeii

Biography:

Heinrich Heine: Paradox and Poet - 1937
Makers of the Modern World - with John Moore - 1955
Makers of the Modern World selections, Japanese translation - 1971

Anthologies:

Modern American Poetry - 1919 - 6th edition, 1942
Modern British Poetry - 1920 - 5th edition, 1942
Modern American and British Poetry - 1919
Yesterday and Today - 1926
New Songs for New Voices - 1928, with Clara and David Mannes, illustrator: Peggy Bacon
A Treasury of Great Poems - 1942, 1955
The Golden Treasury of Poetry - 1959, illustrator: Joan Walsh Anglund
Story Poems - 1946, 1972
Early American Poets - 1952
An Uninhibited Treasury of Erotic Poetry - 1963
A Galaxy of Verse - 1978
Men and Women: the Poetry of Love - 1970, illustrator: Robert J. Lee
Collins Albatross Book of Verse - 1933, 1960
Stars To Steer By - 1941
Lots of Limericks - 1961, illustrator: R. Taylor
The Book of Living Verse - 1932,1945
Rainbow in the Sky - 1935, illustrator: Reginald Birch
A Treasury of Laughter - 1946
An Anthology of New England Poets - 1948
The Best Humor of 1949-1950 - with Ralph E. Shikes, 1950
The Best Humor Annual - with Ralph E. Shikes, 1951
The Best Humor Annual - with Ralph E. Shikes, 1952
The Magic Circle - 1952
A Treasury of Ribaldry - 1956
Big and Little Creatures - 1961, with Bryna Ivens Untermeyer
Beloved Tales - 1962, with Bryna Ivens Untermeyer
Old Friends and Lasting favorites - 1962, with Bryna Ivens Untermeyer
Fun and Fancy - 1962, with Bryna Ivens Untermeyer
Creatures Wild and Tame - 1963, with Bryna Ivens Untermeyer
The Golden Book of Poems for the Very Young - 1971
A Treasury of Great Humor - 1972
                          

First wife Jean Starr, one son Richard,who died.
Divorced and re-married, adopted two sons, Laurence and Joseph.
Second wife Esther Antin.
Third wife Byrna Ivens.