Anthologer

Although the anthologer Al-Bakharzi says that the passages in Abu ’l-‘Alā’s letters first called his attention to the eminence of AI-Maghribi as a writer, the phrase used is scarcely an exaggeration.

A few pages of unadulterated Twain are inserted in the end, and there are unsimplified pieces by James Thurber and Dorothy Canfield, as well as many other selections, both contemporary and classic, which show that the anthologers set about their task with imagination and taste.

It became extremely popular, finding its way into all sorts of anthologies. (Once a poem’s in one anthology it shoots up the charts – most anthologers only read anthologies.)