"Translators, again-the most abused and patient lot of folk on earth-are helpful in making us better acquainted; though we hope the time will soon come when citizens of the twenty-one republics will no longer need translators. There is no reason for our not speaking each other's language...We may recall also such friendly gestures as that of Harriet Monroe, who dedicated an entire number of her magazine, Poetry, to poets of Spanish America..."
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Literary criticsEditors from the United StatesCritics from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesPeople from Chicago
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Muna Lee (writer) "Cultural Interchanges between the Americas" (1929) in A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee, edited and with biography by Jonathan Cohen
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Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe (December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet and patron of the arts.
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