Monro, Harold. (1879 - 1932).
W o r k
- founded the Poetry Bookshop (1912) in London
- helped many of the poets of his time with publication as well as living (e.g. Wilfred Owen lodged in the rooms above the bookshop)
- published many of the works at his own expense, hardly made any profit
- founded The Poetry Review (1911): an influential poetry magazine
- founded Poetry and Drama (1913): a successor to the former, discontinued during WW I x but: re-established as Chapbook (1919 - 1925)
Children of Love (1914):
- a poetry collection
> "Milk for the Cat":
- a carefully observed vignette of the traditional English five o'clock tea
- captures the comforting homely atmosphere and simple pleasures: a crackling fire, tea for adults and children, and milk for the cat
Twentieth Century Poetry (1933):
- his own poetry anthology
- includes his own poems and poems by e.g. Edward Thomas, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Wilfred Owen, T. S. Eliot, etc.
Georgian Poetry (1912, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1922):
- as a collaborator of Edward Marsh's five-volume anthology
Quote
"The children eat and wriggle and laugh,
The two old ladies stroke their silk;
But the cat is grown small and thin with desire,
Transformed to a creeping lust for milk."
From "Milk for the Cat" (1914).
Basics
(Photo: War Poets org).
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Author
Harold Edward Monro. (1879 - 1932). British. -
Work
Poet. Editor. Poetry promoter. -
Genre
Georgian poetry.
Literature
Abrams, Meyer Howard, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993.
Barnard, Robert. Stručné dějiny anglické literatury. Praha: Brána, 1997.
Baugh, Albert C. ed. A Literary History of England. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967.
Coote, Stephen. The Penguin Short History of English Literature. London: Penguin, 1993.
Sampson, George. The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946.
Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. New York: Clarendon Press, 1994.