Helen Carr
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199545810
- eISBN:
- 9780191803475
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199545810.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter discusses the history of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, one of the best known of ‘little magazines’ of literary modernism, perhaps the one that encapsulates the centrality of small ...
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This chapter discusses the history of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, one of the best known of ‘little magazines’ of literary modernism, perhaps the one that encapsulates the centrality of small magazines in modernism's formation and dissemination. Founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, and acquiring for its first six years the dynamic if combustible services of Ezra Pound as foreign correspondent, it devoted itself to promoting what Monroe described as the ‘new poetry’. During its early years it published a range of young, experimental, and often soon to be well-known poets from both sides of the Atlantic, including all the major modernist poets, frequently playing an invaluable role in their emergence and success as writers.Less
This chapter discusses the history of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, one of the best known of ‘little magazines’ of literary modernism, perhaps the one that encapsulates the centrality of small magazines in modernism's formation and dissemination. Founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, and acquiring for its first six years the dynamic if combustible services of Ezra Pound as foreign correspondent, it devoted itself to promoting what Monroe described as the ‘new poetry’. During its early years it published a range of young, experimental, and often soon to be well-known poets from both sides of the Atlantic, including all the major modernist poets, frequently playing an invaluable role in their emergence and success as writers.
