Harriet Monroe

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Harriet Monroe (23 December 1860 – 26 September 1936) was 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 Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg and others, she played an important role in the development of modern poetry. Because she was a long time correspondent of the poets she supported, her letters provide a wealth of information on their thoughts and motives.

Life
She was born in Chicago, Illinois, graduated from the Visitation Academy of Georgetown, D.C., in 1879, and afterward devoted herself to literary work. She died in Arequipa, Peru.

Monroe was a member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Ogle County, Illinois, and is mentioned in Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City.

Family
She was the sister-in-law of the Chicago architect John Wellborn Root.

Publications

 * cantata for the opening of the Chicago Auditorium (1889)
 * Columbian Ode composed for the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition, with George Whitefield Chadwick (1892)
 * Valeria and other Poems (1892)
 * John Wellborn Root; A Study of His Life and Work (1896)
 * The Passing Show - Five Modern Plays in Verse (1903)
 * Dance of the Seasons (1911)
 * You and I - Poems (1914)
 * The New Poetry: Anthology of 20th Century Verse (1923)
 * Poets And Their Art (1926)
 * A Poet's Life - Seventy Years in a Changing World (1938)