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  Harold Monro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harold Edward Monro (March 14, 1879 - March 16, 1932), was a British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public.
Monro was born in Brussels, but his parents were Scottish.
Monro continued to suffer from alcoholism, which contributed to his early death.
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 Harold Monro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Harold Edward Monro (1879 - 1932) was a British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public.
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Harold and Maude The original text of Harold and Maude, by Colin Higgins.
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 Knitting Circle Harold Monro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Harold Monro's marriage had failed, as had the Samurai order, and he embarked on what he called a pilgrimage, starting early in 1908 with a walk the 600 miles from Paris to Milan.
Harold Monro's first marriage was dissolved in 1916, and in 1920 he married Alida Klemantaski.
Harold Monro's later poems were bitter in tone as he dealt with loneliness arising from his alcoholism and bisexuality.
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 Harold Monro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Harold Edward Monro (1879 - 1932) wasa British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bringtheir work before the public.
Monro was also closely involved with Edward Marsh in the publication of GeorgianPoetry.
Monro continued to suffer from alcoholism, whichcontributed to his early death.
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 Georgian Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marsh and Brooke approached the poet and bookseller Harold Monro who had recently opened The Poetry Bookshop at Devonshire Street, London.
Gibson - Robert Graves - Ralph Hodgson - John Masefield - Harold Monro - Robert Nichols -Isaac Rosenberg - Siegfried Sassoon - J.
Lawrence - Harold Monro - Thomas Moult - Robert Nichols - J.
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 Harold Monro : Poet of the New Age on line books store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Harold Monro : Poet of the New Age by Dominic Hibberd
Harold Nathan Segall, cardiologist and historian by Charles G. Roland
Harold Pinter A Casebook Casebooks on Modern Dramatists Vol 5 by Lois Gordon
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 Harold Monro - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Poets in Twentieth Century Poetry, an Anthology chosen by Harold Monro, 1933 edition
Contemporary Authors : Biography - Monro, Harold (1879-1932)
An intriguing mystery: how did editor Harold Monro come to know poet Anna Wickham?
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 oil painting by thomas monro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Born in London, son of a carver and gilder and general art dealer.
Monro he painted the watercolor View from Polsden, Surrey (1800), which shows the influence of Thomas Girtin.
In 1794 one Dr Monro alongside Thomas Girtin, commissioned Turner to produce a series of watercolours...
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 It probably happened that Harold Monro has visited and enjoyed Piraeus . Harold Monro thought Piraeus to be a magical ...
Harold Monro thought Piraeus to be a magical place.
Compared to Harold Monro everything is likely to appear as something bad.
When enthusiasm is inspired by reason, controlled by caution, sound in theory, practical in application, reflects confidence, spreads good cheer, raises morale, inspires associates, arouses loyalty and laughs at adversity, it is beyond price.
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 Harold Monro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The publisher of the various anthologies of Georgian Poetry, Harold Monro, was born in Brussels in 1879.
He describes himself as "author, publisher, editor and book-seller." Monro founded The Poetry Bookshop in London in 1912, a unique establishment having as its object a practical relation between poetry and the public, and keeping in stock nothing but poetry, the drama, and books connected with these subjects.
His quarterly Poetry and Drama (discontinued during the war and revived in 1919 as The Monthly Chapbook), was in a sense the organ of the younger men; and his shop, in which he has lived for the last seven years except while he was in the army, became a genuine literary center.
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 Harold Monro by Dominic Hibberd, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0312224214
Troubled by his complex sexuality, Monro was a tormented soul whose aim was to serve the cause of poetry.
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.
Harold Monro: Poet of the New Age (By Dominic Hibberd)
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 Graham White J R Maze - 0674372859 - Carol Ilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Harold Ickes of the New Deal His Private Life and Public Career
Harold Monro : Poet of the New Age.
Harold Pinter A Casebook Casebooks on Modern Dramatists Vol 5.
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 AllRefer.com - Harold Monro (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
AllRefer.com - Harold Monro (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Harold Monro, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
His Poetry and Drama (1913), a successor to the Poetry Review, was discontinued during World War I, but Monro reestablished it as Chapbook (1919–25).
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Two Typed Letters Signed ("Harold Nicolson") to the Mayor of Colchester, accepting his invitation to the Oyster Feast and subsequently thanking him for the Feast.
Two Typed Letters Signed ("Harold Nicolson") to the Mayor of Colchester, accepting his invitation to the Oyster Feast...
A very good copy in dust jacket, nicked at head and tail of spine and with a tear in the centre of the rear panel.
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 Hoyt C Franchere Thomas F O Donnell - 0805702849 - Dominic Hibberd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Harold Frederick Twayne United States Author Series 3
Harold Griffith : the evolution of modern anaesthesia.
Harold Hobson, witness and judge : the theatre criticism of Harold Hobson.
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 Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop
Harold Monro received me very hospitably, and gave me a little room to sleep in at the top of the house from the windows of which I obtained good views of roofs and chimney pots, and a glimpse of the British Museum.
I discovered that Monro was more than a dozen years younger than myself, and had already published four volumes of poetry, and was about to bring out another to be called 'Trees'.
Monro adopted the chanting manner of reading verse: Moore was more natural.
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 Titles
Harold Monro was one of the leaders in the revolution in poetry just before the First World War, contributing through his writing, the Poetry Bookshop he established and the three periodicals he created.
he has not simply done something better than anyone else, but has done something that no one else has done at all." Driven first by visionary hope for the future, Monro wrote on themes as diverse as war, sexuality, threats to the environment, domesticity and the death of a lover in battle.
The end of his life was clouded by loss, illness and disappointment, and his poetry which Edward Thomas called "intensely interesting", naturally grew bleaker and more pessimistic.
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 Harold Monro --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The Scottish poet and critic Harold Monro sought to make poetry accessible to a wider public in the early 20th century.
As part of his efforts he founded the Poetry Bookshop in London, which became a famous meeting place for poets.
Harold Edward Monro was born to Scottish parents near Brussels, Belgium, on March 14, 1879.
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 LRB | Penelope Fitzgerald : The Death of a Poet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Penelope Fitzgerald wrote 'The Death of a Poet' in 1980 or 1981, intending it to form part of a group portrait of the writers published by Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury.
Alida was Harold Monro's wife, and a friend to both Mew sisters.
Alida tried her last journey through France - she had been taking Harold to a clinic in Switzerland; the taxi-drivers and the porters at the Gare d'Orléans had robbed her as always.
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 Knitting Circle Edward Marsh
September Edward Marsh and Rupert Brooke gave a lunch at the Raymond Building flat for Harold Monro and his boyfriend Arundel del Re, together with Wilfrid Gibson and John Drinkwater.
They discussed the proposed anthology and in December 1912 Harold Monro published the first volume under the title Georgian Poetry, and over the next decade a further four volumes followed with Edward Marsh as the editor.
Apart from Rupert Brooke and Harold Monro, other original contributors were James Flecker, Walter de la Mare, and D. Lawrence.
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 [minstrels] Overheard on a Salmarsh -- Harold Monro
Biography: Harold Monro The publisher of the various anthologies of Georgian Poetry, Harold Monro, was born in Brussels in 1879.
From: "kirsten" My four year old son and I have been exploring poetry in an old Childcraft (Worldbook publishers) poetry book my mum read from when I was a child.
His favourite is "A Modern Dragon" by Bowena Bastin Bennett and "Overheard in a Saltmarsh" by Harold Monroe.
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 Milk for the Cat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It's a finely observed vignette, capturing the essence of that most English of customs: five o'clock tea.
Harold Monro's poem first appeared in his collection "Children of Love" published in 1914 by the Poetry Bookshop.
Although Monro is a name little heard today, the poem remains a favourite.
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 [minstrels] Milk for the Cat -- Harold Monro
A long, dim ecstasy holds her life; Her world is an infinite shapeless white, Till her tongue has curled the last holy drop, Then she sinks back into the night, Draws and dips her body to heap Her sleepy nerves in the great arm-chair, Lies defeated and buried deep Three or four hours unconscious there.
It has got that indescribable feeling of what the Teutons call gemutlichkeit, of which 'cosiness' is a hopelessly inadequate translation.
To this series they applied the name "Georgian" to suggest the opening of a new poetic age with the accession in 1910 of George V. Five volumes of Georgian Poetry, edited by Marsh, were published between 1912 and 1922.
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 NumbersFrancis
Also in Chicago, Harriet Monroe founded in 1912 Poetry, A Magazine of Verse that championed the contemporary poets; Harriet Vaughn Moody, widow of the poet and playwright and caterer for the Little Theatre's tearoom, opened her Chicago home to the visiting poets.
Harriet Monroe at Poetry had returned Abercrombie's play, The Staircase, because, she said, it was too long for the magazine; Abercrombie nevertheless shared with her copies of the first three issues of New Numbers in the hope that she might 'honour us if you can find space for a review.'[12]
Gibson protested Monroe's suggestion that his 'workmanship is rough.' Pointing out that he was one of the earliest admirers of North of Boston, he objected 'to being pitted against Frost,' claiming not to be a realist in the sense of trying to reproduce speech as Frost does.
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 Poetry Bookshop Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Monro; and J. Howard Woolmer) and Poetry Bookshop Papers (also with
     collegues of Harold Monro in reply to Grant as she wrote
B.   Harold and Alida Monro, consists of correspondence between
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 The War Poets Association
He was to appear in all five volumes of Marsh's anthology, Georgian Poetry (1912-22), his plain style coming to be recognised as a principal 'Georgian' characteristic.
He lodged for a year at Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop, then married Monro's secretary and settled for a while near Dymock, Gloucestershire, where a short-lived literary colony grew up in the months before the Great War.
Probably influenced by Monro's call for a new poetry that would convey 'the plain facts of the human psychology of the moment', he wrote about mental states and may have been the first 1914-18 poet to portray shellshock.
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 Q
Harold Monro had seen it and advised me to get Q's opinion about it.
Monro's request will see you, and will with pleasure read your M.S, and give you my opinion.
I will not enlarge upon his kind acceptance of the task of reading my M.S., nor of his few sentences about Harold Monro whose letter he read to me, and about whose work he did not seem to have a very high opinion.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Georgian Poetry
By the 1930s, however, bolder experiments had taken place, and the Georgian period was seen as a tired interlude before the accession of Yeats, Eliot and Pound.
The Georgians were primarily the poets who appeared in the Georgian Poetry collections between 1912 and 1922, a series of five verse anthologies edited by Edward Marsh and published by Harold Monro.
One was Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop in London, a premises where poetry was published, readings and discussions took place between contemporary writers (and not exclusively Georgians), and lodgings were available for struggling poets.
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 Harold M Schulweis
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Harold Monro - Collected Poems of Harold Monro
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