Harriet Monroe

Ted Hendricks (Towson University)

Ed. by Nick Selby, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 23 Dec 1860
Died 26 Sep 1936
Activity 1880-1936

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Autobiographer
Biographer
Editor
Essayist
Literary Critic/ Historian
Playwright / Dramatist
Poet

Resources

Monroe's Works

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Harriet Monroe (1860-1936) founded

Poetry

, the first periodical in the U.S. devoted solely to poetry.

Poetry: A Magazine of Verse

, as Monroe originally titled it, sparked the 20th century revival of interest in poetry in the U.S. and launched the careers of T.S. Eliot, Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, among others.

Monroe was born in Chicago, the second of her parents’ four children who survived infancy. Her father was a prominent lawyer, and the family was well connected socially, although his practice and his fortune declined as his older children came of age. Monroe’s older sister married the successful architect John W. Root; her younger sister married William J. Calhoun, Minister to China under President Taft. Her father’s profession exposed Monroe to public

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Citation: Hendricks, Ted. "Harriet Monroe". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 July 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3154, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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