Harriet monroe biography

Harriet Monroe (December 23, – September 26, ) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, and patron of the arts.

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She was the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, first published in 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 Years in a Changing World, published two years after her death, Monroe recalls: "I started in early with Shakespeare, Byron, Shelley, with Dickens and Thackeray; and always the book-lined library gave me a friend