Harriet Monroe (12 December 1860 – 26 September 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, and patron of the arts. Events 627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II 's Persian Events Works published Charles Baudelaire, Les paradis artificiels (Artificial Paradise Elizabeth Barrett Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a Events James Laughlin founds New Directions Publishers in New York which published many modern poets for the first time She is best known as the founder and long time editor of Poetry Magazine. Poetry, published in Chicago Illinois since 1912 is one of the leading monthly Poetry journals in the English-speaking world Monroe was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in Arequipa, Peru. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. For the Cactus Genus, see Oreocereus. Arequipa is the capital of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru Peru (Perú Piruw Piruw officially the Republic of Peru ( reˈpuβlika del peˈɾu is a country in western South America.
She was the first editor at Poetry Magazine, when it was founded in 1912. Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting From her position as editor, she played a role in the development of modern poetry, both as an early publisher and as a supporter of poets such as Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg and others. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( Hailey, Idaho Territory, United States October 30 1885 – Venice, Italy November 1 1972 was an American Expatriate HD (September 10 1886 – September 27 1961 born Hilda Doolittle, was an American poet, Novelist and Memoirist She is best known Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. William Carlos Williams ( 17 September 1883 &ndash 4 March 1963) was an American poet closely associated with modernism Carl August Sandburg ( January 6, 1878 &ndash July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor best known for his Poetry
Additionally, Monroe was a long time correspondent of the poets she supported, and her letters provide a wealth of information on the thoughts and motives of modernist poets.
External links
- Poetry Foundation
- Poetry Magazine
- A BIRDSEYE VIEW OF "THE NEW POETRY"; Miss Harriet Monroe's Valuable Anthology Gives a Definite Idea of Some of the Achievements and Tendencies of Current Verse THE NEW POETRY, The New York Times Book Review, March 11, 1917
- The New Poetry: An Anthology, by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson, full text, at Google books
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