Poetry (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Marianne Moore
- First Published: 1921
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Perception, Nature, Poetry or poets, Writing, Reality, Criticism, Animals
“Poetry,” a poem Moore reworked several times, states her aesthetic beliefs. She published the first version in 1919, but in 1925 she stripped it from thirty lines to thirteen to comply with her principles of clarity and precision. In the Selected Poems of 1935, she returned it to the original. Then, in 1967, after she repudiated the syllabic verse she used in much of her poetry, she reduced it to the three lines that appear in The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore published that same year. (The original version appears in the “Notes” of that book.)
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