Marianne Moore (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Marianne Moore left a voluminous correspondence with literary figures in America and England. She also wrote occasional reviews and lectured on campuses and at poetry centers. This work, too, shows her imaginative daring, the “idiosyncrasy and technique” that she valued. A sampling of her prose as well as of her verse was published as A Marianne Moore Reader (1961). A selection of essays, Predilections, appeared in 1955.

The words “collected” and “complete” in a title may promise more than the book delivers; in Moore’s...

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