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Harold Edward Monro (14 March 1879 – 16 March 1932) was an English poet born in

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, Belgium. As the proprietor of the

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in London, he helped many poets to bring their work before the public.

Life and career

Monro was born at 137 chaussée de Charleroi, Saint-Gilles/St Gillis, Brussels, on 14 March 1879, as the youngest of three surviving children of Edward William Monro (1848–1889), civil engineer, and his wife and first cousin, Arabel Sophia (1849–1926), daughter of Peter John Margary, also a civil engineer.Dominic Hibberd: "Monro, Harold Edward (1879–1932)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200
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and died aged 41 when Monro was only nine years old. This loss may have influenced his character as a poet. The Monro family was well established in

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. His paternal grandfather, Dr Henry Munro FRCP MD, was a surgeon, born at Gower St,

, in 1817. Monro was educated at

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and

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. His first collection of poetry was published in 1906. He also edited a poetry magazine, ''The

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'', which became influential. In 1913, he founded the

at 35 Devonshire Street in Bloomsbury, where he published new collections at his own expense and sometimes made a profit, while providing a welcoming environment for readers and poets. Several poets, including

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, lodged in the rooms above the shop. Monro and the Poetry Bookshop were also involved with Edward Marsh in publishing the ''

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'' series.

War and peace

Monro wrote few war poems himself, but his "Youth in Arms" quartet, written in the early months of the First World War, is one of the first attempts to envisage the "human psychology" of soldiering and understand "how ungrudgingly Youth dies." These poems were inspired by Monro's fears for his friend, Basil Watt, whom he dearly loved and who was later killed at Loos. Monro's elegy for Watt, "Lament in 1915", is a monologue in unornamented, modern language.

Happy boy, happy boy, David the immortal-willed, Youth a thousand thousand times Slain, but not once killed, Swaggering again today In the old contemptuous way; Leaning backward from your thigh Up against the tinselled bar — Dust and ashes! is it you? Laughing, boasting, there you are! First we hardly recognized you In your modern avatar. Soldier, rifle, brown khaki — Is your blood as happy so? Where's your sling or painted shield, Helmet, pike or bow? Well, you're going to the wars — That is all you need to know. Graybeards plotted. They were sad. Death was in their wrinkled eyes. At their tables—with their maps, Plans and calculations—wise They all seemed; for well they knew How ungrudgingly Youth dies. At their green official baize They debated all the night Plans for your adventurous days Which you followed with delight, Youth in all your wanderings, David of a thousand slings.

After the war, Monro wrote his somewhat trenchant overview ''Some Contemporary Poets (1920)'', though this was not published by the Poetry Bookshop. He also founded ''The Chapbook'' (1919–1925, his third journal after ''The Poetry Review'' and ''Poetry and Drama'', 1913–1914), which was not commercially viable, but contained some of his best work as a poet. His intention was to find "cultural middle ground" between

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and the more traditional work exemplified by the

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. In this Monro took a broad view of the sphere of poetry, devoting whole numbers to children's rhymes and to songs by

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complete with scores.

Marriages

The young Monro was raised together with his sister Mary (died 1921) by their widowed mother, who remarried in 1910 to Sir Daniel Fulthorpe Gooch (1829–1926). Monro's stepbrother Lancelot Daniel Edward Gooch, a midshipman on ''HMS Implacable'', died a fortnight after his 18th birthday in Greece, on 4 October 1915. On 2 December 1903 in Eastbourne, Monro married Dorothy Elizabeth Browne. Their son Nigel Monro (1904–1951) was born in Ireland, where Harold was working as a land agent for a family friend. However, the marriage was not to last and in 1908, the couple separated. The son followed Monro family medical tradition and practised as a surgeon. In March 1913 Monro met Alida Klemantaski, 17 years his junior, from Hampstead, who also had a passion for poetry and had set herself goals of becoming a doctor or rescuing prostitutes from their predicament. Monro instead persuaded her that by working in the Poetry Bookshop, she would be achieving just as much for society. They were married in 1920. Alida's brother Louis Klemantaski, a promising young poet and musical editor died at the Somme in 1916. It is said that Alida had a greater influence than anyone on the development of Monro's own poetry.

Disappointment

In his later years, Monro reflected on whether the Poetry Bookshop had fulfilled its purpose and whether it should be closed, but he was too deeply attached to it. According to the English literary historian Dominic Hibberd, "By now Monro was a disappointed man, appalled at the state of Europe and feeling forgotten by the poets he had helped." He had used up most of his money subsidising the shop. On top of a drinking problem, Monro contracted

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. He died on 16 March 1932, aged 53, at the Cliff Combe Nursing Home,

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, Kent, and was cremated at

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on the 19th. He was remembered as being liberal-minded and without literary prejudices. "Perhaps no one did more for the advancement of twentieth-century poetry."

To what God?

On Monday, 4 August 2014, a service was held at

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as "A Solemn Commemoration on the Centenary of the Outbreak of the First World War", HRH

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, representing HM the Queen. After a reading from ''St John's Gospel'', the choir gave the first performance of a new composition by David Matthews, a pupil of

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, setting a bitter, disillusioned 1914 poem by Harold Monro, "To what God shall we chant our songs of battle?" alongside passages from ''Lamentations'' and ''St Luke''. James O'Donnell, Abbey organist and master of the choristers, commented that the work "leaves you standing on the edge of an abyss."Order of service
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To what God Shall we chant Our songs of Battle? Oh, to whom shall a song of battle be chanted? Not to our lord of the hosts on his ancient throne, Drowsing the ages out in Heaven alone. The celestial choirs are mute, the angels have fled: Word is gone forth abroad that our lord is dead. Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow. To what God Shall we chant Our songs of Battle? Oh, to whom shall a song of battle be chanted? If you had only recognised on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Oh, to whom shall a song of battle be chanted?

Anthologized poets

Poets included in ''Twentieth Century Poetry'', an anthology chosen by Harold Monro, 1933 edition:

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, John Alford, A. C. Benson, Laurence Binyon,

Edmund Blunden Edmund Charles Blunden (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was als ...

, W. S. Blunt,

Gordon Bottomley Gordon Bottomley (20 February 187425 August 1948) was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by tubercular illness. His main influences were the later Victorian Romantic poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and W ...

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, Samuel "Erewhon" Butler, Roy Campbell, G. K. Chesterton,

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, A. E. Coppard,

Frances Cornford Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin; 30 March 1886 – 19 August 1960) was an English poet. Life She was the daughter of the botanist Francis Darwin and Newnham College fellow Ellen Wordsworth Crofts (1856-1903), and born into the Darwin ...

, John Davidson,

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, Jeffery Day,

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, John Drinkwater, Helen Parry Eden, T. S. Eliot, Vivian Locke Ellis, Michael Field, J. E. Flecker,

F. S. Flint Frank Stuart Flint (19 December 1885 – 28 February 1960) was an English poet and translator who was a prominent member of the Imagist group. Ford Madox Ford called him "one of the greatest men and one of the beautiful spirits of the country". L ...

, John Freeman, Stella Gibbons,

Wilfrid Gibson Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (2 October 1878 – 26 May 1962) was a British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work. Early work Gibson was born in Hexham, Northumberland, and left the north for London in 1914 ...

Robert Graves Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was a British poet, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celtic ...

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H. D. Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the ...

Philip Henderson Philip Prichard Henderson (17 February 1906 – 13 September 1977) was a British novelist and literature critic. Henderson was born in Barnes, London, in the United Kingdom. After attending Bradfield College he worked as assistant editor of ...

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A. E. Housman Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. After an initially poor performance while at university, he took employment as a clerk in London and established his academic reputation by pub ...

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Charlotte Mew Charlotte Mary Mew (15 November 1869 – 24 March 1928) was an English poet whose work spans the eras of Victorian poetry and Modernism. Early life and education Mew was born in Bloomsbury, London, daughter of the architect Frederick Mew (18 ...

, Alice Meynell, Viola Meynell, Harold Monro,

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, Robert Nichols,

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J. D. C. Pellow John Dynham Cornish Pellow MBE (1890–1960) was an English poet and civil servant. Life Pellow was born in London, where his father, William Pellow, was a civil servant. He wrote poetry throughout his life. Professionally, Pellow followed in his ...

, H. D. C. Pepler,

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, Geoffrey Scott,

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, James Stephens, Edward Thomas,

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References

Poetry collections

*''Chronicle of a Pilgrimage'' (1909) *''Before Dawn: Poems and Impressions'' (1911) *''Children of Love'' (1915) *''Strange Meetings'' (1917) *''Real Property'' (1922) *''The Earth for Sale'' (1928) *''The Silent Pool and other poems'' (Faber & Faber, 1942) *''Collected Poems'' (ed. Alida Monro, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1970)

External links

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