The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Marianne Moore
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nature, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Women, Creative process, Baseball, Athletes, Sports, Animals
Form and Content
The 1981 edition of The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore is the “Definitive Edition, with the Author’s Final Revisions” of a 1967 collection of the same title, and includes five additional poems written in her last years. It contains all the poems the poet wished to preserve, 125 in all, along with a handful of her translations from the Fables (1668-1694) of Jean La Fontaine.
These are poems of immaculate phrasing, metrically and formally intricate, containing frequent quotations from a variety of sources and dealing in many instances...
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