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Poems of Marianne Moore

Poems of Marianne Moore

by Marianne MOORE (1887 - 1972)

In 1921, American poet H.D. collected and published a selection of previously published poems by Marianne Moore. Although this angered Moore, as it was entirely unauthorized, she later accepted the edition as well made and used it as the basis for her own 1924 publication of Observations. Moore's unique poetry matches the experimentation underway during the American Modernist movement. Much of it incorporates seemingly out-of-place quotations into complex free verse that often uses Nature as a subject matter. Today, despite the self-motivated alteration of her poetry in later life, done much to the dismay of her devotees, scholars consider Moore a significant American poet worthy of intense study in an a unalterable place in the canon. (Summary by Oscar Goff)


01 - Pedantic Literalist

02 - To A Steam Roller

03 - Diligence Is To Magic As Progress Is To Flight

04 - Those Various Scalpels

05 - Feed Me, Also, River God,

06 - To William Butler Yeats On Tagore

07 - He Made This Screen

08 - Talisman

09 - Black Earth

10 - "He Wrote The History Book," It Said

11 - You Are Like The Realistic Product Of An Idealistic Search For Gold At The Foot Of The Rainbow

12 - Reinforcements

13 - Roses Only

14 - In This Age Of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, And

15 - The Fish

16 - My Apish Cousins

17 - When I Buy Pictures

18 - Picking And Choosing

19 - England

20 - Dock Rats

21 - Radical

22 - Poetry

23 - In the Days of Prismatic Color

24 - Is Your Town Nineveh?