Titlebook: Harold Monro; Poet of the New Age Dominic Hibberd Book 2001 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2001 Bertrand Ru

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y-written biography will help rescue Monro from the graveyard of literary history and claim for him the recognition he deserves. Poet and businessman, ascetic and alcoholic, socialist and reluctant soldier, twice-married yet homosexual, Harold Monro probably did more than anyone for poetry and poets

沖突

Inheritance,moments of cheerfulness, and she would turn the conversation back to what she called ‘My Griefs’.. Like many Victorians she had a taste for deathbed scenes; 10-year-old Harold was no doubt required to be present in 1889 to hear his father’s last farewell.

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,Ireland 1902–6,hem. The cottage, Crevenish, was in ideal hunting country, so he found a beautiful little mare and rode out twice a week. There was plenty of time to write. ‘London was all sour,’ he told Maurice; ‘this has lots of sweet.’

結(jié)構(gòu)

,The Samurai 1906–8,n intensive course of reading now that he was within reach of books again. It was in the next few years, the twentieth century’s one brief period of optimism, that the Poetry Bookshop and Georgian poetry were to have their origins.

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,Pilgrimage to Freedom 1908–9,returning spring. He would walk to Italy, the land Maurice had dreamed of, hoping the rigours of the way would clear his mind and help him to see his own and the world’s ‘great wonderful future’. And in some strange way it worked. His old life of social conformism, sexual pretence and literary pastiche was left behind for ever.

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,The Mountain and the Tower 1909–11,ween these two homes, as though they represented the two poles of his own personality, until spirit and flesh came briefly together in the Utopian relationship he needed. There would have been no Poetry Bookshop without this double experience in Ticino and Tuscany.

Leaven

,Alida 1913–14,ss affairs, attended by a hundred or more members and guests, and it was the custom that after the meal some of the speaker’s poems would be read by way of introduction. On this occasion the reader was a young woman.