The Second Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets
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The Second Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets
American poetry -- 20th century
Monroe, Harriet. [1860-1936] (2)
Born in Chicago. Graduated at Visitation Academy, Georgetown, D.C.,
March, 1891. Miss Monroe was chosen to write the ode
for the dedication of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892.
After some years in literary work, chiefly as an art critic,
Miss Monroe founded, in October of 1912, `Poetry; A Magazine of Verse',
an organ which has done much to stimulate interest in poetry
and also its production, since it has become the recognized vehicle
for the work of the newer school. The first "Imagist" poems
appeared in its pages and it was the first to print the work
of Carl Sandburg and other well-known poets of the poetic revival.
Miss Monroe is the author of "Valeria and Other Poems", 1892;
"The Passing Show, Modern Plays in Verse", 1903; "You and I", 1914,
and was co-editor, with Alice Corbin Henderson, of "The New Poetry",
an anthology, 1917.
Morgan, Angela. [1873/74-1957] (2)
Born in Washington, D.C. Educated by private tutors, the public schools,
and by special University courses. Miss Morgan entered the journalistic field
while still a young girl and did very brilliant work
on papers of Chicago and New York. Her work covered all phases of life
from those of society to the slums. She visited police courts, jails,
and all places where humanity suffers and struggles, and it was no doubt
her early work in the newspaper field that gave to her later work,
both in poetry and fiction, its strong social bias. Probably no poet
of the present time responds more keenly to the social needs of the period,
nor has a keener sense of the opportunity for service. Miss Morgan
was one of the delegates to the First International Congress of Women,
at The Hague, during the first year of the war, and has appeared frequently
in readings from her own work. Her volumes of verse are
"The Hour Has Struck", 1914; "Utterance and Other Poems", 1916;
"Forward, March", 1918; and "Hail, Man", 1919. She has also published
a volume of stories under the title "The Imprisoned Splendor".
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