Anthology

a Greek term meaning a collection of flowers, a garland. Hence a collection of short poems or beautiful passages. Compiling an anthology has been a favorite task since the first anthology was made by Meleager, a Syrian, 90 B. C. One of the latest and most meritorious, entitled A Victorian Anthology, was compiled by E. C. Stedman. Emerson also made a collection of choice poems, to which he gave the name Parnassus.