ABSTRACT
Harold Monro (1879-1932), poet, editor, bookseller, founded Poetry Review (1911) and the Chapbook (1919), and started the famous Poetry Bookshop in 1913.
Aldous Huxley is among the most promising of the youngest genera tion of contemporary poets. He has a brilliant intellect, rare force of imagination, command of language, subtle penetration, irony and style; and the progress of his development has been rapid from the beginning. Keats has influenced him slightly: otherwise he owes little to any particular dead or living English poet. But his debt to French literature is unmistakable, and we do also notice an occasional hint of German influence. Some of the earlier poems, such as 'The Canal' in The Burning Wheel, read more like translations than originals, so effectually has the style of the best kind of French sonnet imposed itself on his temperament.
