Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe (1860–1936), born in Chicago, was an American poet, critic and editor. She wrote the Columbian Ode, read at the dedication of the World’s Columbian Exposition on 21 October 1892, and in 1912 founded Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, which she edited until her death.

The poems here are taken from Edmund Clarence Stedman’s An American Anthology, 1787–1900 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900) and, for the Columbian Ode, from the edition published in Chicago in 1893.