Harold Monro

CM attended a Poetry Bookshop reading in Bloomsbury at the invitation of Alida Klementaski (later wife of Harold Monro ), who greatly admired her work.

Harold Monro 's condemnation of After the Retreat as petty poetry whose reticence denotes either poverty of imagination or needlessly excessive restraint, is part of a general opposition to Imagism.

The printing firm usually employed by the Bookshop could not print the volume because one of their compositors, a Methodist, refused to set the poem Madeleine in Church, which he considered to be blasphemous...

AW initiated the pseudonym by which she is known when nine of her poems were published in Harold Monro 's journal Poetry and Drama.

Critic Joy Grant writes of AW 's relations with her editor, Harold Monro , in a positive light, stressing Wickham's gratitude to Monro for not seeing her poems as symptoms of a disordered mind

Alida Klementaski (later Monro) read the poem and was electrified by it. She immediately committed it to memory, and a couple of years later repeated it to Harold Monro , editor of the newly...

Her publishers at Persephone chart the progress of her reputation through an experience around the turn of the century related by Ian Hamilton . A train of thought about forgotten names in Johnson 's Lives...

Defending H.D. against Harold Monro 's criticism, MS insisted that the Imagist style was unique for sheer emotion, for clean-cut and perfect beauty. Nevertheless, she hedged her bets by telling Charlotte Mew that her...

AW frankly expresses her frustrations with domestic duties and the disillusionment of married life: By the sacrifice of myself I have attempted to serve three generations of men. I seem to have ruined them all...

She planned to write something about Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop , which she felt to have been unfairly eclipsed by the much-heard-of Bloomsbury group. She also worked on but did not...