Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroewas an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet and patron of the arts. She is best known as the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, which made its debut in 1912. As a supporter of the poets Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg , Max Michelson and others, she played an important role in the development of modern poetry. Because she was a longtime correspondent of the poets she...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 December 1860
cinderella poetry
. . . poetry, 'The Cinderella of the Arts.'
art creative age
Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .
twisted figures vogue
Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.
people hearing poet
The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.
stars long littles
Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the cricket and the long drum-roll of the stars.
art mean writing
"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.