Harold Monro

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Harold Monro 1879–1932

   • Dominic Hibberd

   Pages 1-5

3. Inheritance

   • Dominic Hibberd

   Pages 6-12

4. Cambridge 1898–1902

   • Dominic Hibberd

   Pages 13-20

5. Ireland 1902–6

   • Dominic Hibberd

   Pages 21-31

6. The Samurai 1906–8

   • Dominic Hibberd

   Pages 32-56

7. Pilgrimage to Freedom 1908–9

   • Dominic Hibberd

   Pages 57-70

8. The Mountain and the Tower 1909–11

   • Dominic Hibberd

   Pages 71-90

9. The Poetry Review 1911–12

   • Dominic Hibberd

   Pages 91-112

10. The Poetry House

    • Dominic Hibberd

    Pages 113-127

11. Alida 1913–14

    • Dominic Hibberd

    Pages 128-146

12. War 1914–16

    • Dominic Hibberd

    Pages 147-176

13. Casualty 1916–19

    • Dominic Hibberd

    Pages 177-199

14. A New Start 1919–20

    • Dominic Hibberd

    Pages 200-215

15. Disillusion 1921–5

    • Dominic Hibberd

    Pages 216-231

16. Great Russell Street 1926–8

    • Dominic Hibberd

    Pages 232-245

17. No Way Out 1929–32

    • Dominic Hibberd

    Pages 246-258

18. Legacies

    • Dominic Hibberd

    Pages 259-265

19. Back Matter

    Pages 266-300

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Troubled by his complex sexuality, Monro was a tormented soul whose aim was to serve the cause of poetry. Hibberd's revealing and beautifully-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 in the period before and after the Great War, and yet his reward has been near oblivion. Aiming to encourage the poets of the future, he befriended, among many others, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and the Imagists; Rupert Brooke and the Georgians; Marinetti the Futurist; Wilfred Owen and other war poets; and the noted women poets, Charlotte Mew and Amma Wickham.

• Bertrand Russell
• biography
• death
• freedom
• future
• George Eliot
• history
• history of literature
• knowledge
• liberty
• oblivion
• pilgrim
• poet
• poetry
• women

'The book is a 'who's who' of everyone who wandered through the corridors of Georgian, Imagist and Modern poetry...You know this is a well-written biography because you turn the pages in haste, wanting to know what happened next, and you care about the main protagonists. The book is full of details that you won't have read elsewhere. Monro has been almost forgotten, except by those who take a special interest in this brief period of 20th century letters. Dominic's book should make it less likely that future generations will forget Monro's role in promoting poetry.' - Friends of Dymoch Poets Newsletter

'...absorbing...a gripping account of a man at war with himself...meticulously researched...combines clarity, compassion and an engaging dry humour.' - Sunday Times

'...beautifully written...just the right amount of sympathy and insight...Hibberd's ability to establish Monro as a seminal figure...is impressive.' - Choice (USA)

'...fascinating.' - Scotland on Sunday

DOMINIC HIBBERD'S publications include Owen the Poet, Wilfred Owen: The Last Year and, with John Onions, the anthology Poetry of the Great War. He has taught English at Manchester Grammar School, the universities of Exeter and Keele, Northwestern University, USA, and Peking Union University.