anthologist
Literary excerpt gatherer
An anthologist is a person who compiles an anthology—a collection of selected literary works, passages, or other creative pieces gathered into a single volume.
The anthologist chooses what to include, often around a theme, period, or genre: The anthologist favored overlooked women poets of the 1920s.
The role involves both curation and editorial judgment.
Chosen item or items
- choosingSelecting from alternatives
- handpickedPersonally selected with care
- curatedDeliberately selected and organized
- tasteFlavor perception ability
discernment · judgment · connoisseurship · sifting · assemblage · collation · winnowing · arrangement
Gathered works assembled together
- selectionsChosen items from options
- volumeAmount of space filled
- excerptsSelected passages from texts
- worksFunctions or labors
classics · treasury · omnibus · compendium · reader · sampler · collected works · best of
Metrical literary composition
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
- essaysShort nonfiction prose pieces
- fictionImagined narrative work
- nonfictionLiterature about real events
prose · verse · letters · speeches · folktales · myths · travel writing · criticism
Preliminary section or presentation
- forewordIntroductory book section
- headnotesPrefatory case summaries
- annotationsExplanatory additions to documents
- bibliographyList of cited works
permissions · acknowledgments · manuscript · proofreading · copyediting · attribution · critical apparatus · contextualizing
selection
Chosen item or items
- choosingSelecting from alternatives
- handpickedPersonally selected with care
- curatedDeliberately selected and organized
taste · discernment · judgment · connoisseurship · sifting · assemblage · collation · winnowing · arrangement · juxtaposition
compilation
Gathered works assembled together
- selectionsChosen items from options
- volumeAmount of space filled
- excerptsSelected passages from texts
works · classics · treasury · omnibus · compendium · reader · sampler · collected works · best of · survey
poetry
Metrical literary composition
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
- essaysShort nonfiction prose pieces
- fictionImagined narrative work
nonfiction · prose · verse · letters · speeches · folktales · myths · travel writing · criticism · memoirs
introduction
Preliminary section or presentation
- forewordIntroductory book section
- headnotesPrefatory case summaries
- annotationsExplanatory additions to documents
bibliography · permissions · acknowledgments · manuscript · proofreading · copyediting · attribution · critical apparatus · contextualizing · glossary
- Literary Criticsbook reviewer, essayist, scholar, analyst, commentator
- writersauthor, novelist, writer, poet, journalist
- editorseditor, copy editor, chief editors, editor-in-chief, managing editors
- scholarsscholar, professors, professor, researcher, researchers
- literary scholarsscholar, critic, literary critics, professor, philologists
- literatiauthor, writer, poet, novelist, essayist
- horror anthologiesCompilations of frightening tales
- comic anthologiesCollected humorous sequential art
- music anthologiesCurated song collections
- story anthologiesCurated collections of narratives
- literature anthologiesVolumes of selected writings
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