Harold Monro

Poet of the New Age

D. Hibberd

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN:
  9780333779347
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230595781
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism in Poetry
• Index: Literature

Troubled by his complex sexuality, Monro was a tormented soul whose aim was to serve the cause of poetry. 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Harold Monro Poet of the New Age
• Contents
• List of Plates
• List of Text Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Harold Monro 1879–1932
• 1 Inheritance
• 2 Cambridge 1898–1902
• 3 Ireland 1902–6
• 4 The Samurai 1906–8
• 5 Pilgrimage to Freedom 1908–9
• 6 The Mountain and the Tower 1909–11
• 7 The Poetry Review 1911–12
• 8 The Poetry House
• 9 Alida 1913–14
• 10 War 1914–16
• 11 Casualty 1916–19
• 12 A New Start 1919–20
• 13 Disillusion 1921–5
• 14 Great Russell Street 1926–8
• 15 No Way Out 1929–32
• 16 Legacies
• Appendix A The Monro family
• Appendix B Galloway Kyle and The Poetry Review
• Sources
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index