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Definition: Moore, Marianne from Philip's Encyclopedia

US poet. Her poetry is considered among the most distinguished US verse of the 20th century, with its wit, irony, and wide-ranging subject matter and its highly accomplished technical discipline. She received a Pulitzer Prize for Collected Poems (1951).


Moore, Marianne Craig

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1887-1972 US poet Born in St Louis, Missouri, she was educated at Bryn Mawr College, and Carlisle Commercial College in Pennsylvania. She taught commercial studies at Carlisle, tutored privately, and was a branch librarian in New York (1921-25). She contributed to the Imagist magazine, The Egoist , from 1915, and edited The Dial from 1926 until its demise in 1929. She was acquainted with seminal modernists like Ezra Pound and T S Eliot , but New York was her milieu, not Paris, and she associated with the Greenwich Village group including William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens . She has supplied a much-quoted definition of the creative ideal as "imaginary gardens with real toads in them". Her first book, Poems , was published by friends in London in 1921. Idiosyncratic, a consummate stylist and unmistakably modern, she ranks high among the US poets of the 20th century. Other volumes include Collected Poems (1951, Pulitzer Prize) and The Complete Poems (1967). She also published…
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From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
American poet. Born in Kirkwood, Missouri, she was brought up in the home of her grandfather, a Presbyterian minister, and was educated at the Metzger Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and at Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1909. After a course at Carlisle Commercial College, she taught…
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Full text Article Moore, Marianne (Craig) (1887–1972)

From The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry
Born in Kirkwood, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri. She was the second child of a father who, failing as an engineer, returned permanently to his parents after a nervous breakdown, and a mother who assumed the burden of bringing up her family. Mrs Moore housekept for her own father, a Scotch-Irish…
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US poet, whose crisp language, wit and idiosyncratic style established her as a leading literary figure. Her works include Observations (1924, rev 1925), Collected Poems (1951, Pulitzer Prize) and Complete Poems (1967, rev 1981). It comes to this: of whatever sort it is, it must be ‘lit with…
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Full text Article Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

From The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History
Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
Marianne Moore is the greatest American female modernist poet of the twentieth century. Frequently included in the exclusive group of such modernist American poets as T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound, Moore's poetry was marked by a precision of language and an…
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Full text Article Marianne Moore 1887–1972

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