ABSTRACT

Monro (1879-1932), English poet and editor, was educated at Cambridge. He founded the Poetry Review in 1912, and edited Poetry and Drama (1914). He opened the Poetry Bookshop, and was the publisher of the five volumes of Georgian Poetry. His Collected Poems (1933) contained a biographical sketch by F. S. Flint and a critical note by Eliot. (Pound's review appeared in the Spectator, 23 June 1933.) Pound's obituary of Monro appeared in the Criterion injuly 1932 and in Polite Essays.