Harold Monro

Harold Monro was a British poet, editor, and bookseller active in the early twentieth century. He is best known for founding the Poetry Bookshop in London and for his lyrical poetry that often explores themes of urban loneliness and domestic life. Biografía ↓Más ↓

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Harold Monro

Solitude

When you have tidied all things for the night, And while your thoughts are fading to their sleep, You'll pause a moment in the late firelight, Too sorrowful to weep. The large and gentle furniture has stood In sympathetic silence all the day With that old kindness of domestic wood ; Nevertheless the haunted room will say : "Someone must be away." The little dog rolls over half awake, Stretches his paws, yawns, looking up at you, Wags his tail very slightly for your sake, That you may feel he is unhappy too. A distant engine whistles, or the floor Creaks, or the wandering night-wind bangs a door. Silence is scattered like a broken glass.

Biografía

Harold Monro was a British poet, editor, and bookseller who lived from 1879 to 1932. He founded the Poetry Bookshop in London in 1913, which became a central meeting place for poets and readers and also published poetry. Monro edited the periodicals The Poetry Review and Poetry and Drama, helping to promote modernist and Georgian poetry. His own verse often addresses everyday urban life, loneliness, and the quiet moments of domestic existence, using clear imagery and a restrained, musical style. Though sometimes associated with the Georgian poets, his work also shows sympathy with more experimental currents of his time. His poetry collections include works such as Strange Meetings. Monro's significance lies less in any single school than in his practical support for poetry through publishing, bookselling, and editorial work, and he remains an important figure in early twentieth-century British literary culture.

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