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Harriet Monroe

I lived from 1860-1936. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

I was influenced by poets T S Eliot, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg.

Founder of Poetry magazine in 1912, she began the call for what she deemed "poems of modern significance." The journal contributed to the start of the Chicago Renaissance and also supported moderism's international influence and appeal. Monroe kept a vigilant watch for new talents and published, among others, T.S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, and Ezra Pound in the first editions of Poetry . Her personal work, initially, was influenced by the classical constructs of the nineteenth century, but evolved along with the modernist movement's own growth pattern.

My poetry

  • The Meeting
    The ox-team and the automobile
    Stood face to face on the long red road,
    29 lines
  • The Blue Ridge
    STILL and calm,
    In purple robes of kings,
    10 lines
  • On the Train
    I
    THE lady in front of me in the car,
    34 lines
  • April -- North Carolina
    Would you not be in Tryon
    Now that the spring is here,
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • The Water Ouzel
    Little brown surf-bather of the mountains!
    Spirit of foam, lover of cataracts, shaking your wings in falling waters!
    12 lines
  • These Two
    They died these two &mdash
    The little boys I knew &mdash
    23 lines
  • The Garden
    Hiding under the hill,
    Heavy with trailing robes and tangled veils of green,
    8 lines
  • Rubens
    Here you are, grand old sensualist!
    And here are the three goddesses
    12 lines
  • Washington
    Oh, hero of our younger race!
    Great builder of a temple new!
    22 lines
  • On the Porch
    As I lie roofed in, screened in,
    From the pattering rain,
    40 lines

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