Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe ( * 1860 in Chicago, † 1936) was an American poet and literary critic.

Life

Harriet Monroe was initially automatically as a poet and as such, in 1892 the author of " Columbian Ode ", a poem for the World's Columbian Exposition to the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.

In 1912, she was the founder and editor of the literary magazine "Poetry", which was influential through the publication of works by TS Eliot, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens in the following years. In 1917 she was the editor of an influential anthology "free verse " under the title "The New Poetry".

In addition to a collection of her own poems under the title "Chosen Poems" (1935) 1937 was also posthumously published her autobiography "A Poet's Life".