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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Harold Monro
During his own lifetime, Harold Monro was more widely known for his services to the cause of poetry in general than for his own writings. And for him, poetry was a cause, pursued with a notably disinterested ardor. He was an editor, a publisher, and, above all, the proprietor of the Poetry Book-shop, a sort of twentieth-century Mermaid Tavern--a meeting place and clearinghouse for poets and their public, the scene for twenty-three years of readings by all the best-known figures of the literary world, even at times a rooming house for indigent writers. As a poet, Monro was known, if at all, as the author of a few anthology pieces, a minor Georgian with a knack for pleasant domestic sentiment, a celebrator of cats and teakettles and weekends in the country. Today, however, a different picture of the man has emerged, and the priorities of the career are...
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