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Gregory documents for the first time, the critical reception history of the great modernist poet Marianne Moore. This collection of 71 of the most important and provocative reviews and essays from across Moore's long career (1915-1972) includes pivotal articles by H. D., T. S. Eliot, Mark Van Doren, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington, Edith Sitwell, Harriet Monroe, Alfred Kreymborg, William Carlos Williams, Scofield Thayer, Wallace Stevens, F. R. Leavis, Morton Zabel, Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, Muriel Rukeyser, Glenway Wescott, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Hilton Kramer and many others. The individual reviews are themselves of considerable literary note. And together they chart the development of a major contributor to the American modernist scene, whose work actively critiques the structures of literary authority. ... Read more

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This book examines the strategic possibilities of poetic self-restraint. Marianne Moore,Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson all wrote poetry that is marked by a certain reserve--precisely the motive against which most feminist poets and critics of the last thirty years have established themselves. Kirstin Hotelling Zona complicates this dichotomy by examining the conceptions of selfhood upon which it depends. She argues that Moore, Bishop, and Swenson expressed their commitment to feminism by exposing its most treasured assumptions: they not only challenge the ideal of autonomous self-definition, but also contest the integrity of a bodily or sexual authenticity by which that ideal is often measured.
In recent years critical studies of Bishop and Moore have flourished, a large percentage of them devoted to explorations of sexuality and gender. A gap is growing, however, between feminist repossessions of Moore and Bishop and recent readings of their antiessentialist poetics. On the one hand, these poets are appearing more frequently in the feminist canon, but the price of this inclusion is usually the suppression of their strategies of self-restraint. While Zona questions the poetic privileging of self-expression, she establishes contiguity between feminist poetry and developments in American poetry at large. In doing so she asserts the centrality of feminist poetry within discussions of contemporary American poetry, thereby challenging the common perception of feminist poetry as an "alternative" (which often means auxiliary) genre.
Kirstin Hotelling Zona is Assistant Professor of Poetry and Poetics, Illinois State University.
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Examines the life of the American poet and presents some of her poems. ... Read more

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Marianne Moore's poetry offers an extraordinarily rich site from which to analyze a tradition of American orientalism which focused upon China. Marianne Moore and China examines why she chose to participate in that tradition and analyses why her borrowing of Chinese models of all kinds--from poetry to painting and philosophy--was so critical to the formation of her verse. This book also examines the ways in which Chinese linguistic features provide Moore with models for her compound nouns and syntactical ellipses, and gathers evidence to show that her abiding concerns for precision, brevity and restraint have both Confucian and Puritan antecedents. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Catalogue of an exhibition held at The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia; The Joseph Regenstein Library, The University of Chicago; The Grolier Club, N.Y. city; & The Folger Shakespeare Library, Wash., D.C. Contents: An Original Sensibility: the Development of Marianne Moore as a Modernist Poet; Vision into Verse; The Marianne Moore Collection at the Rosenbach Museum & Library; The Exhibition; & Catalogue of the Exhibition. Illustrations. ... Read more

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"an absolutely necessary book . . . belongs with Longenbach's important study of Stevens as part of a new way of reading the Modernists."--Margaret Dickie, University of Georgia
The Web of Friendship offers a lively critical account of the little-known and long-lived poetic and personal relationship between Marianne Moore (1887-1972) and Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). Robin G. Schulze traces the two poets' give-and-take from the years immediately following the First World War to Stevens's death in 1955 and explores how events like the Great Depression, the rise of leftist poets in the 1920s and 1930s, and the devastation of the Second World War shaped their poetic exchange. She provides a unique account of the poignant personal conversation between Moore and Stevens in the 1950s, their final years of close friendship before Stevens's death. Grounded in manuscript study, The Web of Friendship also uncovers hitherto unknown source materials for a number of Stevens's and Moore's poems that lead to fresh interpretations of their verse.
Finally, Moore's unexplored, principally supportive relationship with Stevens is a complex illustration of cross-gender cooperation that suggests new ways of understanding poetic influence as historically, archivally, and biographically contextualized conversation.
The Web of Friendship makes a valuable contribution not only to the study of Moore's and Stevens's poetry, but to the consideration of modernist poetry generally and the broader study of poetic influence.
Robin G. Schulze is Assistant Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University.
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Concentrating on the work Marianne Moore produced during the first two decades of her long career (1915-36), John Slatin's closey documented account of Moore's poetic development affords a radically new sense of Moore's concerns and of her stature as a poet, countering the usual image of Moore as a charming eccentric whose work is unrelated to that of any other poet. Virtually everything Moore wrote responds in some way to the profound sense of isolation at the core of her sense of self, sometimes embracing isolation, more often seeking desperately to overcome it. The young Moore was fiercely ambitious, stubbornly determined to make a place for herself within the literary community of her day. The Savage's Romance describes how she went about doing that and shoes the consequences of her success. Placing her beside Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens as one of the major poetic figures of her generation, Slatin demonstrates that Moore's work is neither as opaque nor as impervious to the work of other writers as she likes to pretend, and shoes how her poetic identity emerges from her increasingly complex efforts to come to terms with the creative power of her contemporaries. Describing Moore's increasing involvement in what Eliot calls the 'great labour' of furnishing herself with a tradition of Emerson and Thoreau and Hawthorne, thus revealing her to be what she herself called Henry James: a 'Characteristic American.' The concern of this book is with the power of her poems, singly and collectively, to engage and persuade not just our own belated attention but the attention of her contemporaries as well. ... Read more

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English Prof That is the Best at What she DOES
Darlene Williams Erickson was a Professor of mine many years ago.Her poetry classes excited me and her gentle encouragement touched the lives of many throughout her life.This book is only a hint of her talent for the fine art of poetry and her ability to express feelings and emotions.

I highly recommend her work and look forward to experiencing more of it.
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