Harold Monro : poet of the New Age / Dominic Hibberd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hibberd, Dominic.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monro, Harold, 1879-1932.

Monro, Harold.

Literature publishing--England--London--History--20th century.

Literature publishing.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--Biography.

Publishers and publishing.

History.

Great Britain.

England--London.

Poets, English--20th century--Biography.

Poets, English.

Gay men--Great Britain--Biography.

Gay men.

Poetry Bookshop.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 300 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Harold Monro 1879-1932 1

1 Inheritance 6

2 Cambridge 1898-1902 13

3 Ireland 1902-6 21

4 The Samurai 1906-8 32

5 Pilgrimage to Freedom 1908-9 57

6 The Mountain and the Tower 1909-11 71

7 The Poetry Review 1911-12 91

8 The Poetry House 113

9 Alida 1913-14 128

10 War 1914-16 147

11 Casualty 1916-19 177

12 A New Start 1919-20 200

13 Disillusion 1921-5 216

14 Great Russell Street 1926-8 232

15 No Way Out 1929-32 246

16 Legacies 259

Appendix A The Monro family 266

Appendix B Galloway Kyle and The Poetry Review 270.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-291) and index.

ISBN:

0312224214

OCLC:

44727912