Harold Edward Monro (March 14, 1879 - March 16, 1932), was a British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public. Events 1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. Events Awards Works published Robert Browning, Dramatic Idyls, including "Ivàn Ivànovitch" Stéphane Events 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king Events W B Yeats rents a house in Dublin In Vietnam, the New Poetry ( Thơ mới) period begins marked by an article and A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" The Poetry Bookshop, which ran in Bloomsbury, London, from 1913 to 1926, was the brainchild of Harold Monro, and was supported London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
Monro was born in Brussels, but his parents were Scottish. Brussels (Bruxelles pronounced; Brussel pronounced) officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. He was educated at Radley and at Caius College, Cambridge. Radley College ( St Peter's College Radley) is a famous English public school situated on the edge of the village of Radley near Gonville and Caius College Cambridge is a constituent College of Cambridge University, one of the world's most academically respected institutions His first collection of poetry was published in 1906. Events Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein Works published W He founded a poetry magazine, The Poetry Review, which was to be very influential. In 1912, he founded the Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, publishing new collections at his own expense and rarely making a profit, as well as providing a welcoming environment for readers and poets alike. Bloomsbury is an area of central London in the south of the London Borough of Camden, developed by the Russell family in the 17th and 18th centuries into London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Several poets, including Wilfred Owen, actually lodged in the rooms above the bookshop. Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 &ndash 4 November 1918 was an English Poet and Soldier, regarded by many as one of the leading Monro was also closely involved with Edward Marsh in the publication of Georgian Poetry. Sir Edward Howard Marsh ( November 18, 1872 – January 13, 1953) born to Professor Howard Marsh of Downing College Cambridge was a British Georgian Poetry was the title of a series of anthologies showcasing the work of a school of English Poetry that established itself during the
Although homosexual, he married before World War I, but he and his wife separated and were divorced in 1916. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All In 1917, he was called up for military service, a very unhappy experience for him. Events Hu Shih, the primary advocate for the revolution in Chinese literature at this time to replace scholarly language with the vernacular publishes an article His health soon gave way, and he returned to run the Poetry Bookshop in 1919. Events Two paintings by E E Cummings appear in a show of the New York Society of Independent Artists He was not a mainstream war poet, but did occasionally write about the subject. In 1920, he married his long-standing assistant, Alida Klementaski. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Their relationship seems to have been an intellectual rather than a physical one. Monro continued to suffer from alcoholism, which contributed to his early death. Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions
Poets in Twentieth Century Poetry, an Anthology chosen by Harold Monro, 1933 edition
Lascelles Abercrombie - Richard Aldington - John Alford - A. C. Benson - Laurence Binyon - Edmund Blunden - W. S. Blunt - Gordon Bottomley - Robert Bridges - Rupert Brooke - Samuel "Erewhon" Butler - Roy Campbell - G. K. Chesterton - Richard Church - Padraic Colum - A. E. Coppard - Frances Cornford - John Davidson - W. H. Davies - Jeffrey Day - Walter De la Mare - Lord Alfred Douglas - John Drinkwater - Helen Parry Eden - T. S. Eliot - Vivian Locke Ellis - Michael Field - J. E. Flecker - F. S. Flint - John Freeman - Stella Gibbons - Wilfrid Gibson - Robert Graves - Thomas Hardy - H. D. - Philip Henderson - Maurice Hewlett - Ralph Hodgson - Gerard Manley Hopkins - A. E. Housman - Ford Madox Hueffer - T. E. Hulme - Aldous Huxley - James Joyce - Rudyard Kipling - D. H. Lawrence - Cecil Day Lewis - John Masefield - R. A. K. Mason - Charlotte Mew - Alice Meynell - Viola Meynell - Harold Monro - T. Sturge Moore - Edwin Muir - Henry Newbolt - Robert Nichols - Alfred Noyes - Wilfred Owen - J. Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as the Georgian Laureate) ( January 9, 1881 &ndash October 27, 1938) was a British Richard Aldington (born Edward Godfree Aldington July 8 1892 &ndash July 27 1962 was an English writer and poet. John Alford (1686&mdash 29 September 1761) founder of the Professorship of natural religion moral philosophy and civil polity in Harvard University Arthur Christopher Benson ( 24 April, 1862 &ndash 17 June, 1925) was a British Essayist, Poet and Author Robert Laurence Binyon ( 10 August 1869 at Lancaster &ndash 10 March 1943 at Reading Berkshire) was an English Edmund Charles Blunden, MC ( November 1, 1896 - January 20, 1974) was an English poet author and critic Wilfrid Scawen Blunt ( 17 August 1840 &ndash 10 September 1922) was an English Poet and Writer. Gordon Bottomley (1874 – 1948 was an English poet known particularly for his Verse dramas He was partly disabled by illness Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, ( 23 October 1844 &ndash 21 April 1930) was an Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle name sometimes given as Chaucer) was an English Poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World Samuel Butler ( December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902 was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works including the Roy Campbell is the name of Roy Campbell (poet, South African poet Roy Campbell Jr Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936 was an influential English writer of the early 20th century Richard Thomas Church ( March 26, 1893 – March 4, 1972) was an English writer known as poet and critic he also wrote novels and verse plays Padraic Colum ( 8 December, 1881 &ndash 11 January, 1972) was an Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist, Alfred Edgar Coppard ( January 4 1878 &ndash January 13 1957) was an English writer noted for his influence on the Short story form Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin; 1886-1960 was an English poet John Davidson ( April 11, 1857 – March 23, 1909) Scottish Poet and Playwright, best known for his Ballads William Henry Davies or WH Davies ( 3 July 1871 - September 26, 1940) was a Welsh Poet and writer Miles Jeffery Game Day (1896 - 1918 was an English War poet, killed in an air battle towards the end of World War I over the sea Walter John de la Mare (surname pronounced /ˈdɛləˌmeə(ɹ/ OM CH ( 25 April 1873 &ndash 22 June 1956) was an Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas ( 22 October 1870 &ndash 20 March 1945) was a Poet, a Translator and a Prose John Drinkwater ( June 1 1882 - March 25 1937) was an English Poet and Dramatist. Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. Michael Field was a Pseudonym used for the Poetry and Verse drama of Katherine Harris Bradley (1846 - 1914 and her niece and ward Edith James Elroy Flecker ( November 5 1884 - January 3 1915) was an English poet novelist and playwright Frank Stuart Flint ( December 19, 1885 - February 28, 1960) was an English Poet and Translator who was a prominent John Frederick Freeman, ( January 29 1880 &ndash September 23 1929) was an English poet and essayist who gave up a successful career in Stella Dorothea Gibbons ( 5 January, 1902, London &mdash 19 December, 1989, London) was an English Novelist Wilfrid Wilson Gibson ( October 2, 1878 - May 26, 1962) was a British Poet, associated with World War I but also the author Robert Graves (24 July 1895 &ndash 7 December 1985 was an English Poet, Translator and Novelist. Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928 was an English novelist Short story writer and poet of the naturalist movement though he saw HD (September 10 1886 – September 27 1961 born Hilda Doolittle, was an American poet, Novelist and Memoirist She is best known Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923 was an English historical novelist poet and essayist Ralph Hodgson ( 9 September 1871 &ndash 3 November 1962) was an English poet very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June, 1889) was an English Poet, Roman Catholic convert and Alfred Edward Housman (ˈhaʊsmən 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 usually known as A Ford Madox Ford ( December 17, 1873 &ndash June 26, 1939) was an English Novelist, Poet, Critic Thomas Ernest Hulme ( 16 September 1883 &ndash 28 September 1917) was an English writer who during his informal tenure from 1909 as critic Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 &ndash 22 November 1963 was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 was an English Author and poet David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930 was an English writer of the 20th century whose prolific and diverse output included Novels short Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE ( 27 April 1904 &ndash 22 May 1972) was an Irish -born Poet John Edward Masefield, OM, ( 1 June 1878 &ndash 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and Poet Laureate MASON RAK (1905–71 was New Zealand’s ‘first wholly original unmistakably gifted poet’ (Allen *Curnow Charlotte Mary Mew ( November 15, 1869 – March 24, 1928) was an English Poet, whose work spans the cusp between Victorian Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (22 September 1847 - 27 November 1922 was an English Writer, editor, Critic, and Suffragist Viola Meynell Dallyn (1885 – 1956 was an English writer novelist and poet Thomas Sturge Moore ( March 4, 1870 – July 18, 1944) was an English poet author and artist Edwin Muir ( 15 May 1887 &ndash 3 January, 1959) was an Orcadian poet novelist and noted translator born on a farm in Deerness Sir Henry Newbolt, CH (1862–1938 was an English poet He is best remembered for Vitai Lampada. Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols ( September 16 or September 6, 1893 – December 17, 1944) was an English writer known as a War Alfred Noyes ( September 16, 1880 &ndash June 28, 1958) was an English poet best known for his ballads The Highwayman Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 &ndash 4 November 1918 was an English Poet and Soldier, regarded by many as one of the leading D. C. Pellow - H. D. C. Pepler - Eden Phillpotts - Ezra Pound - Peter Quennell - Herbert Read - Isaac Rosenberg - Siegfried Sassoon - Geoffrey Scott - Edward Shanks - Fredegond Shove - Edith Sitwell - Osbert Sitwell - Sacheverell Sitwell - Stephen Spender - J. C. Squire - James Stephens - Edward Thomas - W. J. Turner - Sylvia Townsend Warner - Max Weber - Anna Wickham - Humbert Wolfe - William Butler Yeats
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