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Harold Monro: poet of the New Age

By Harold , Poetry Bookshop; Hibberd , Dominic; Monro

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave
Year
2001
ISBN
9780312224219, 0312224214, 9780333779347, 0333779347
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1531271 bytes)
Pages
xii, 300 s.: illustrations, tav., portraits; 24 cm
Time added
2020-11-29 04:20:56

Description

Troubled by his complex sexuality, Monro was a tormented soul whose aim was to serve the cause of poetry. Dominic Hibberd's revealing and beautifully-written biography will help rescue Monro from the graveyard of literary history and claim for him the recognition he deserves. Poet and businessman, ascetic and alcoholic, socialist and reluctant soldier, twice-married yet homosexual, Harold Monro probably did more than anyone for poetry and poets in the period before and after the Great War, and yet his reward has been near oblivion. Aiming to encourage the poets of the future, he befriended, among many others, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and the Imagists; Rupert Brooke and the Georgians; Marinetti the Futurist; Wilfred Owen and other war poets; and the noted women poets, Charlotte Mew and Amma Wickham.

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