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Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

LINKS

http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=97

This link connects you to the Academy of American Poets. Here you will find an exhibit on Marianne Moore including a biography, online primary texts, criticism, bibliographic information, and additional links.

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/moore/moore.htm

This link connects you to the Modern American Poetry site, edited by Professor Cary Nelson at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Here you will find an exhibit of secondary criticism, bibliographic information, and external links on Marianne Moore.

BIOGRAPHY

Raised by her grandfather, a Presbyterian minister, Marianne Moore, moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1896 two years after his death. Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1909 and, after studying typing at the Carlisle Commercial College for a year, worked as a teacher of "commercial subjects" at the Carlisle Indian School through 1915. That year, Moore published in the little magazine The Egoist and moved with her mother to Chatham, New Jersey and later Greenwich Village. The 1920s marked the ascent of Moore as a poet in her collaboration with such modernists as William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, and Kenneth Burke. While working as an assistant at the Hudson Park branch of the New York Public Library, she published a volume entitled Poems in 1920, and from 1925 through 1932 served as the editor of the influential modernist journal The Dial. In the 1930s, Moore won the Helen Haire Levinson Prize for Poetry (1932), published her Selected Poems (1935), received the Ernst Harstock Memorial Prize, and published a volume entitled The Pangolin and Other Verse. Beginning the next decade with The Shelley Memorial Award (1940), Moore also won Contemporary Poetry's Patrons Prize (1944), the Harriet Monroe Poetry Prize (1944), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1945). During this period, Moore published What Are Years? (1941), and Nevertheless (1944) followed by her Collected Poems (1951) that received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize (1953). In 1955, Moore was elected to the Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters observed her seventy-fifth birthday in 1962. By the end of that decade, Moore had become a popular celebrity and in addition to throwing out the first baseball of the 1968 season at Yankee Stadium at age 80, she was named "Senior Citizen of the Year" for 1969. The following year she received an honorary degree from Harvard and published her final poems before her death in 1972 at age 84.

SECONDARY SOURCES

Diehl, Joanne Feit. Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The Psychodynamics of Creativity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Joyce, Elisabeth W. Cultural Critique and Abstraction: Marianne Moore and the Avant-Garde. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1998.

Leavell, Linda. Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.

Miller, Cristanne. Marianne Moore: Questions of Authority. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Molesworth, Charles. Marianne Moore: A Literary Life. New York: Atheneum, 1990.

Parisi, Joseph, Ed. Marianne Moore: The Art of a Modernist. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1990.

Willis, Patricia C. Marianne Moore, Woman and Poet. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 1990.

—. Marianne Moore: Vision into Verse. Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum and Library, 1987.

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