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In order to bring the work of living poets to the attention of a wide audience, Harriet Monroe

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   campaigned in magazines
   
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   started her own poetry magazine
   
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   toured South America
   
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   wrote to Walt Whitman for help
   
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   used leftover space in her magazine Poetry
   

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   It is noted in the passage that, in order to fund her business venture, Monroe
   

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   used her vast personal wealth
   
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   asked modern poets to donate their work free of charge
   
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   persuaded the rich of Chicago to donate money for the project
   
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   used her wages as the editor of another magazine
   
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   asked for donations from well-known American and British poets
   

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   According to the passage, Poetry: a Magazine of Verse.
   

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   never paid for itself
   
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   mainly printed the work of dead poets
   
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   had a significant effect on the advancement of modern verse
   
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   failed to attract the work of notable American and British poets
   
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   had problems finding material to fill leftover space
   

142 GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
When Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726, the author's name, Jonathan Swift, did not appear on the book. The title page read, "Travels into several remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver...". Many people accepted this as fact. Travel books of the time told many tales that were no more strange than the imaginary adventures of Gulliver. One sea captain even claimed that he knew Captain Gulliver well. Other readers condemned the book as full of exaggerations. Although it became one of the most famous books for children, it was not written for children. It was savage satire aimed at the human race. The tiny Lilliputians are vain, malicious and bloodthirsty. The king and the court of Lilliput are a parody of the English king and court. The giants of Brobdingnag are amiable, but commonplace and insensitive. Laputa is full of the foolish philosophers and scientists whom Swift despised. The Houyhnhnms are horses who use degraded men, Yahoos, just as men use horses elsewhere. Looking at mankind through the eyes of horses, Swift sees people as vicious, greedy and ignorant. From its first appearance, Gulliver's Travels delighted its readers instead of shocking them. In spite of his bitterness, Swift took a dry delight in making his narrative sound real even when it was fantastic. Children could enjoy the marvellous adventures of a traveller among pygmies and giants, on a flying island, and in a country where horses talk. Thus, Gulliver's Travels soon became a children's classic.

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