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“To follow on Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne is perhaps a more difficult task than the poets of any age had to face.”

Names the Victorian shadow under which his generation wrote · Letter, May 1908

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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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