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The mystery of Marianne Moore.
What most readers remember of Marianne Moore are her beasts--her jerboa, her ostrich, her pangolin. Late in her life, when the brilliant strangeness of her early poems had receded into the mists, she became a fabulous beast herself, poetry's most endearing mascot. In her tricorn hat she looked as if she'd just emerged from a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution; and her befuddled, otherworldly air suggested that poets were absentminded nocturnal creatures, unused to daylight. Her antics made poets, and poetry, seem slightly ridiculous--she threw out the first ball at a Yankees game and met that poet of the ring, Cassius Clay (soon to be known as Muhammad ...
- Marianne Moore, the James family, and the politics of celibacy.
- Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature Leavell, Linda June 22, 2003 700+ words
Not long before she died, Marianne Moore received a letter, a form letter...order to effect political change. Marianne Moore had always supported civil liberties...sexual identity and disparages Marianne Moore's distance from hers (168...
- Marianne Moore (not) at the Polo Grounds.
- Magazine article from: ANQ Morris, Timothy April 1, 1994 700+ words
In Marianne Moore: A Literary Life (1990), Charles...was over (Encyclopedia 2026). But Marianne Moore never saw either Slagle or Mathewson...76). So it seems very likely that Marianne Moore became interested in baseball, and...
- Marianne Moore
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1996 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1996 Marianne Moore Pulitzer Prize winning poet Marianne Moore, wearing her trademark tricorn hat. First...portraits. Pulitzer Prize winning poet Marianne Moore, wearing her trademark tricorn hat. First...
- The complete prose of Marianne Moore.
- Magazine article from: The Nation Crase, Douglas November 1, 1986 700+ words
THE COMPLETE PROSE OF MARIANNE MOORE. Edited by Patricia C. Willis...especially the taxing syntax of Marianne Moore? Imagine 462 prose items packed...expanse of The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore, to be impressively clear. Credit...
- The "Ballet Mecanique" of Marianne Moore's Cinematic Modernism.
- Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg) McCABE, SUSAN June 1, 2000 700+ words
...connections, this essay examines Marianne Moore's poem "Those Various Scalpels...superimposition and juxtaposition (3). Marianne Moore writes to Bryher in 1933: "I...contributions from many poets including Marianne Moore, H.D. and Stein. The recent...
- Cultural Critique and Abstraction: Marianne Moore and the Avant-garde.
- Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies Righelato, Pat January 1, 2001 700+ words
...Cultural Critique and Abstraction: Marianne Moore and the Avant-garde. By Elisabeth...This is clearly a different Marianne Moore from the one raised in an arts...exemplary detail by Linda Leavell in Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic...
- The Marianne Mynah: a memoir of Marianne Moore.
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Smith, William Jay October 1, 2000 700+ words
On October 3, 1947, Marianne Moore wrote to her brother about a dinner...this issue of the magazine to Marianne Moore, and she wrote back promptly...stair, And under his iron door. Marianne Moore said of this poem, "William...
- Marianne Moore's Creative Chaos; At the Folger, Poetry From the Clutter
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Elizabeth Kastor January 19, 1988 700+ words
...20 years ago. "Do you have any Marianne Moore material?" she asked the curators...celebration of the centennial of Moore's birth, Willis and the Rosenbach...The show, "Vision Into Verse: Marianne Moore and the Modernist Poem," is currently...
Source: HighBeam Research, The mystery of Marianne Moore.