Paul Potts, ‘Portmanteau of Samples,’

Pott’s review of Geoffrey Moore’s American Literature: Selected and Introduced by Georffrey Moore, 25, September 1964, Volume 28, Issue 13, p. 13.

‘One way to judge an anthology is to miss what has been left out. One way to judge an anthology is to miss what has been left out. Not one Negro writer has been included in Mr. Geoffrey Moore’s huge book. And remember whom they have omitted, Booker T Washington, George Washington Carver, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin’.

Potts continues with praise for the anthology: ‘it is rather like a huge portmanteau full of bulging brim and exciting samples of various bulbs and blooms’.