Harold Monro

Harold Edward Monro (14 March 1879 – 16 March 1932) was a Belgian-born British poet, publisher, bookseller and anthologist. He was a tireless supporter of contemporary English poetry, not least as publisher of Edward Marsh's Georgian Poetry series.

Harold Monro (circa 1919)

Quotes

• O cool glad pasture; living tree, tall corn,
  Great cliff, or languid sloping sand, cold sea,
  Waves: river curving; you, eternal flowers,
  Give me content, while I can think of you:
  Give me your living breath!
  Back to your rampart, Death!
  • "Living", line 36, from Alida Monro (ed.) Collected Poems (London: Duckworth, [1933] 1970) p. 13.

• Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try;
  He has offered his bow for the game.
  But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why.
  • "Children of Love", line 34, from Alida Monro (ed.) Collected Poems (London: Duckworth, [1933] 1970) p. 154.

• The children eat and wriggle and laugh,
  The two old ladies stroke their silk;
  But the cat is grown small and thin with desire,
  Transformed to a creeping lust for milk.
  • "Milk for the Cat", line 17, from Alida Monro (ed.) Collected Poems (London: Duckworth, [1933] 1970) p. 163.

Criticism

• His poetry, as a whole, is more nearly the real right thing than any of the poetry of a somewhat older generation than mine except Mr. Yeats's.
  • T. S. Eliot, in Alida Monro (ed.) The Collected Poems of Harold Monro (London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1933) p. xiv.

External links

• Works related to Author:Harold Monro on Wikisource
• Encyclopedic article on Harold Monro on Wikipedia