The Marianne Moore Page

( 1887-1972 )

Major Works
Poems ( 1921 ). Published in London by H. D. without Moore's knowledge.
Observations ( 1924 ).
Selected Poems ( 1935 ). Introduction by T. S. Eliot.
The Pangolin and Other Verse ( 1936 ).
What Are Years ( 1941 ).
Nevertheless ( 1944 ).
A Face ( 1949 ).
Collected Poems ( 1951 ).
Fables of La Fontaine ( 1954 ). Verse translations of La Fontaine's verse fables
Predilections: Literary Essays ( 1955 ).
Idiosyncracy and Technique ( 1966 ).
Like a Bulwark ( 1956 ).
O To Be a Dragon ( 1959 ).
Idiosyncracy and Technique ( 1959 ).
The Marianne Moore Reader ( 1961 ).
The Absentee: A Comedy in Four Acts ( 1962 ). A dramatization of Maria Edgeworth's novel.
Puss in Boots, The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella ( 1963 ). Adaptations from Perrault. Dress and Kindred Subjects ( 1965 ).
Poetry and Criticism ( 1965 ).
Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel and Other Topics ( 1966 ).
The Complete Poems ( 1967 ).
The Accented Syllable ( 1969 ).
Homage to Henry James ( 1971 ). Essays by Moore, Edmund Wilson and others.
The Complete Poems ( 1981 ).
The Complete Prose ( 1986 ).
The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore. Edited by Bonnie Costello, Celested Goodridge, Cristann Miller. Knopf, 1997

About Moore
Charles Molesworth, Marianne Moore: A Literary Life. Atheneum, 1990.
Marianne Moore from Poets.org
Marianne Moore ( 1887-1972 ). Picture, biographical sketch, bibliography, links. From Kobe University in Japan.
Discussion of Several Moore Poems from Modern American Poetry.

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