ABSTRACT
‘A Word About Walt Whitman’, The Critic (16 April, 1892), p. 231.
Harriet Monroe, who was a poet herself, later became the editor and publisher of the influential Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in the city of Chicago. This magazine, which has entered literary history because it published some of the earliest work of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg and other notable figures in the twentieth century, bore for a long time on its masthead a saying by Walt Whitman: ‘To have great poets, one must have great audiences, too.’
