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“We admire sincerity more than originality.”

A Georgian-era priority that later modernists would reverse · Preface, The Poetry Review, 1912

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Harold Monro

14 March 1879–16 March 1932

In the heart of Georgian London, amid the tumult of a literary revolution that would reshape English poetry forever, stood a slight, melancholic figure whose contribution to modern literature far exceeded his own poetic achievements. Harold Edward Monro, born on March 14, 1879, in Brussels to Scottish parents, would…

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