Harriet Monroe
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Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroewas an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet and patron of the arts. She is best known as the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, which made its debut 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, she played an important role in the development of modern poetry. Because she was a longtime correspondent of the poets she...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 December 1860
Harriet Monroe quotes about
cinderella poetry
. . . poetry, 'The Cinderella of the Arts.'
twisted figures vogue
Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.