41įor fifteen cents in 1912, Chicago, you could have purchased one pound of New Evaporated Crawford Peaches or Stollwerck’s Premium Chocolate 1/2 pound cake, some of Madame Ise’bell’s Face Powder or an oak-framed picture of Cupid (awake or asleep), 1/4 lb box of “Effervescing Sodium Phosphate” (used to make granular salt) or, granted you were willing to put up with “slight defects, never noticeable,” some infants’ cashmere stockings. “POETRY may not be a grand enough portal, and the lamps that light it may burn dim in drifting winds but until a nobler one is built it should stand, and its little lights should show the way as they can.”-Harriet Monroe, Poetry 11.1, p. Flint - Florence Kiper Frank - Jun Fujita - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson - Ben Hecht - Helen Hoyt - James Joyce - Joyce Kilmer - Alfred Kreymborg - Harold Monro - Ernest Rhys - Lola Ridge - Isaac Rosenberg - James Stephens - Ajan Syrian - Sara Teasdale - Eunice Tietjens - Allen Upward - Arthur Waley - John Hall Wheelock - (Arthur) Yvor Winters - Edith Wyatt - Elinor Wylie Even More of Poetry‘s Poets: Conrad Aiken - Maxwell Bodenheim - Joseph Campbell - Skipwith Cannell - Emanuel Carnevali - Padraic Colum - Grace Hazard Conkling - Hilda Conkling - Babette Deutsch - Arthur Davison Ficke - John Gould Fletcher - F.

Eliot - Robert Frost - Vachel Lindsay - Amy Lowell - Carl Sandburg - Wallace Stevens - William Carlos Williams - W. Literary Debates and Controversies: Imagism - Vers Libre - The Jepson Attack - Poetry Prizes - Poems of War and Peace

Harriet Monroe and the Beginnings of Poetry

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