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Harriet Monroe

Born: 1860 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: 1936 in Arequipa, Peru

Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Monroe was born in Chicago and was a member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Ogle County, Illinois.

Biography: Harriet Monroe was an influential poet, editor, and publisher. In 1912, she founded 'Poetry: A Magazine of Verse'. This journal published and promoted many subsequently famous writers and poets incuding Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Carl Sandburg. She was also a member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Ogle County, Illinois. Upon her death, she bequethed her literary legacy to the University of Chicago and these are installed in a special room at Wieboldt Hall, the modern languages building at the university.


Awards:
  • -- Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, 2011.

Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers; Young adult readers

Harriet Monroe on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=harriet+monroe


Selected Titles

  Dance of the seasons.
ISBN: 1407720996 OCLC: 940810870

Hardpress Publishing, [Place of publication not identified] : 2012.

  DIFFERENCE, AND OTHER POEMS :
ISBN: 0243394640 OCLC: 986839916

FORGOTTEN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2017.

  JOHN WELLBORN ROOT :
ISBN: 133423647X OCLC: 980675788

FORGOTTEN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2016.

  PASSING SHOW :
ISBN: 1331701341 OCLC: 978668677

FORGOTTEN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2015.

  Poets & their art
ISBN: 0848684699 OCLC: 23922218

[publisher not identified] [Place of publication not identified] :

 

 

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