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From: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Date: 20070301
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U.S. poetry magazine founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe , who became its longtime editor. It became the principal organ for modern poetry of the English-speaking world and survived through World War II. Because its inception coincided with the Chicago literary renaissance , it is often associated with the raw, local-colour poetry of Carl Sandburg , Edgar Lee Masters , Vachel Lindsay , and Sherwood Anderson , but it also championed new formalistic movements, including Imagism . Ezra Pound was its European correspondent; among the authors it published were T.S. Eliot , Wallace Stevens , ...

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