HARRIET MONROE

Harriet Monroe was born in Chicago in 1960. She graduated from Visitation Academy in Georgetown in 1879. She returned to Chicago and devoted her life to poetry.

She wrote a poem for the opening of the Chicago Auditorium in 1889 and wrote "The Columbian Ode" which was sung at the opening of The Columbian Exposition in 1892.

She started Poetry magazine in 1912.

Her books include:

Chosen Poems, a Selection from My Book of Verse, 1935
John Wilborn Root-A Memoir, 1896
Poets and Their Art, 1926
The Difference and Other Poems, 1924
The Passing Show-Five Modern Plays in Verse, 1903
Valeria and Other Poems, 1892
You and I, 1914


BOOKS ABOUT HARRIET MONROE

Harriet Monroe by Ellen Williams (U of Illinois Press), 1977
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Harriet Monroe and The Poetry Renaissance
The First 10 years of Poetry (1912-22) by Ellen Williams (U of Illinois Press), 1977
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