Dec 24, 2009

Collected Poems | Collected Poems

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Author: Marianne Moore
First Published: 1951
Type of Work: Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Twentieth century, New York City, Marriage, Poetry or poets, Cats, Women, English language, Animals

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Even after her poems had been published and critically acclaimed, Marianne Moore continued to revise them; sometimes she rejected them altogether. Between her first book, Poems (1921), and her last, The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (1967), she published several other volumes of poetry. Typically, a new book was made up of substantially revised poems from the previous book together with a number of previously uncollected poems. Collected Poems (1951), for example, begins with most of the poems from Selected Poems (1935), which...

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Collected Poems | Collected Poems

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