Who is Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe (December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, and patron of the arts. She was the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, first published in 1912. As a supporter of the poets Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Max Michelson and others, Monroe played an important role in the development of modern poetry. Her correspondence with early twentieth century poets provides a wealth of information on their thoughts and motives.

Biography

Monroe was born in Chicago, Illinois. She read at an early age; her father, a lawyer, had a large library that provided refuge from domestic discord. In her autobiography, A Poet's Life: Seventy Y...
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Harriet Monroe Poems

• April -- North Carolina
  Would you not be in Tryon
     Now that the spring is here,
  When mocking-birds are praising
     The fresh, the blossomy year? ...
• The Message Of The Wind
  The wind comes riding down from heaven.
  Ho! wind of heaven, what do you bring?
  Cool for the dawn, dew for the even,
  And every sweetest thing. ...
• In The Beginning
  WHEN sunshine met the wave,
  Then love was born;
  Then Venus rose to save
  A world forlorn....
• A Farewell
  GOOD-BY: nay, do not grieve that it is over-
  The perfect hour;
  That the winged joy, sweet honey-loving rover,
  Flits from the flower....
• A Letter To One Far Away
  Dear Wanderer-
  The sky is gray,
  With flecks of blue
  The clouds rush over. ...

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• Johnstonglenn: you may accept my gratis opinion that the american plutocracy are a lot of baboons with no sense of responsibility - ezra pound to harriet monroe, march 1922
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