Marianne Moore

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Standard Name: Moore, Marianne
Birth Name: Marianne Craig Moore
MM was a pivotal figure in US poetry of the twentieth century. A recent editor has written that no major poet is cherished more and known less from that period in America.
Moore, Marianne. “Introduction”. The Poems of Marianne Moore, edited by Grace Schulman, Faber, 2003, p. xix - xxx.
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As well as poetry, MM wrote translations, essays, criticism, and personal letters. She had an influential period as editor of the modernist journal the Dial. Her poems are characterised by precise, irregular, unrhymed verse forms and minutely detailed observation, often of semi-mythical animals used as ways of talking about the human condition. Always reluctant to let her work go out of her hands, and often self-deprecating about it, she published few books and let much of her poetry remain in periodicals.
Black and white photograph of Marianne Moore, standing against a bookshelf. Her grey hair is in a plait round her head; she wears a large dark jacket over a grey suit, collared shirt, and bow-tie.

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Intertextuality and Influence Maria Edgeworth
Marianne Moore later dramatised this work.
Intertextuality and Influence Patricia Beer
Her introduction gives a brief, humorous, yet enlightening account of her poetic career. She calls on poets to resist bullying by critics, and ends by quoting Marianne Moore 's famous remark about poetry as an...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Taylor
Again the story unfolds in a small country village. It centres on the friendship of three women: Frances, a painter who was formerly a governess, and the younger Liz and Camilla, who come to stay...
Leisure and Society Rumer Godden
Her literary standards of judgement were high. Among women poets she accorded major status only to Sappho , Christina Rossetti , Emily Dickinson —not Elizabeth Barrett Browning —and to the more recent Edith Sitwell and Marianne Moore .
Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan, 1987.
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Literary responses Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath , who began with negative comments about EB , later developed admiration for her fine originality, always surprising, never rigid, flowing, juicier than Marianne Moore who is her godmother.
qtd. in
Rees-Jones, Deryn. “Writing ELIZABETH”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 42-62.
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Fleur Adcock notes...
Literary responses Stevie Smith
This brought her work to a large and enthusiastic audience. Sylvia Plath wrote to SS declaring herself a fan. Several poems were printed in US papers and periodicals to prepare for the American edition in...
Literary responses Edith Sitwell
Sitwell was subject to dismissive antifeminist comment from such critics as Geoffrey Grigson and Harold Acton .
Hill, Rosemary. “No False Modesty”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 20, 20 Oct. 2011, pp. 25-6.
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The poets of the Movement were famously dismissive of ES . Al Alvarez published a notorious and...
Literary responses H. D.
The volume was reviewed on this day in the Times Literary Supplement. It was covered by Marianne Moore for the Dial.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
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Literary responses Bryher
Unlike Development, which received much initial critical attention, Two Selves was reviewed in only one journal, the Manchester Guardian. Marianne Moore wrote privately to Bryher, telling her that she thought the novel a...
Literary responses Jennifer Johnston
This quotation was used to head an enthusiastic notice by US critic Julia Epstein in the Washington Post Book World. Johnston, wrote Epstein, coils her language so tightly that she achieves the compression we...
Literary responses Mary Butts
Although her work received mixed reviews, MB was generally recognized as an important if eccentric literary figure during her lifetime, and she was highly praised by other modernist writers, including Ezra Pound , Marianne Moore
Literary responses Charlotte Mew
Marianne Moore was quoted on the dust-jacket: This collection is to me extraordinary—unforced, and masterly in a technical way, almost without exception. There are in the style traces of W. B. Yeats and Thomas Hardy
Literary responses Dorothy Richardson
Reviewers, one of whom was American poet Marianne Moore , considered the book very handsome. Its publisher, Jackson , took an increased interest in Richardson as a novelist even before this text came out, and...
Literary responses Charlotte Mew
CM 's admirers include a long list of writers from Thomas Hardy and Ezra Pound to Virginia Woolf and Marianne Moore .
Literary responses T. S. Eliot
In the month this volume was published, Pound printed in The Egoist a rollicking article about the outrage Eliot's poetry was producing. Only genius, he wrote, not mere talent, infallibly evokes a torrent of elderly...

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