New Collected Poems
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William Carlos Williams, remarking on the impeccable precision of her poems, found in them "the aesthetic pleasure engendered when pure craftsmanship joins hard surfaces skillfully." It is only in New Collected Poems that we can read Moore's work as Williams and many other illustrious admirers knew it. Edited by Heather Cass White, one of the foremost scholars of Moore's work, this new collection at last allows readers to experience the full force of these dazzling poems as the author originally envisioned them.
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Heather Cass White has edited two previous collections of Marianne Moore's poetry, A-Quiver with Significance: Marianne Moore, 1932-1936, and Adversity & Grace: Marianne Moore, 1936-1941. She is a professor of English at the University of Alabama.
Content
Acknowledgments
Conventions Followed
Introduction
THE POEMS
OBSERVATIONS (1924)
To an Intra-Mural Rat
Reticence and Volubility
To a Chameleon
A Talisman
To a Prize Bird
Injudicious Gardening
Fear is Hope
To a Strategist
Is Your Town Nineveh?
A Fool, a Foul Thing, a Distressful Lunatic
To Military Progress
An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish
To a Steam Roller
Diligence is to Magic as Progress is to Flight
To a Snail
"The Bricks are Fallen Down, We Will Build with Hewn Stones. The Sycamores are Cut Down, We Will Change to Cedars."
George Moore
"Nothing will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape"
To the Peacock of France
In this Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance is Good and
To Statecraft Embalmed
The Monkey Puzzler
Poetry
The Past is the Present
Pedantic Literalist
"He Wrote The History Book"
Critics and Connoisseurs
To be Liked by You Would be a Calamity
Like a Bulrush
Sojourn in the Whale
My Apish Cousins
Roses Only
Reinforcements
The Fish
Black Earth
Radical
In the Days of Prismatic Color
Peter
Dock Rats
Picking And Choosing
England
When I Buy Pictures
A Grave
Those Various Scalpels
The Labors of Hercules
New York
People's Surroundings
Snakes, Mongooses, Snake-Charmers, and the Like
Bowls
Novices
Marriage
Silence
An Octopus
Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns
Index
POEMS 1932-1936
Part of a Novel, Part of a Poem, Part of a Play
The Steeple-Jack
The Student
The Hero
No Swan So Fine
The Jerboa
Camellia Sabina
The Plumet Basilisk
The Frigate Pelican
The Buffalo
Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain
Pigeons
See in the Midst of Fair Leaves
Walking-Sticks and Paperweights and Watermarks
THE PANGOLIN AND OTHER VERSE (1936)
The Old Dominion Virginia Britannia
Bird-Witted
Half Deity
Smooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle
The Pangolin
from WHAT ARE YEARS (1941)
What are Years?
Rigorists
Light is Speech
He "Digesteth Harde Yron"
Spenser's Ireland
Four Quartz Crystal Clocks
The Paper Nautilus
NEVERTHELESS (1944)
Nevertheless
The Wood-Weasel
Elephants
A Carriage from Sweden
The Mind is an Enchanting Thing
In Distrust of Merits
POEMS 1944-1951
"Keeping Their World Large"
His Shield
Propriety
Voracities and Verities Sometimes are Interacting
A Face
By Disposition of Angels
Efforts of Affection
The Icosasphere
Pretiolae
Armor's Undermining Modesty
Quoting An Also Private Thought
We Call Them the Brave
LIKE A BULWARK (1956)
Bulwarked against Fate
Apparition of Splendor
Then the Ermine:
Tom Fool at Jamaica
The Web One Weaves of Italy
The Staff of Aesculapius
The Sycamore
Rosemary
Style
Logic and "The Magic Flute"
Blessed is the Man
from O TO BE A DRAGON (1959)
O to Be a Dragon
I May, I Might, I Must
A Jellyfish
Values in Use
Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese
Enough: Jamestown, 1607-1957
Melchior Vulpius
No better than "a withered daffodil"
In the Public Garden
The Arctic Ox (or Goat)
Saint Nicholas,
For February 14th
Combat Cultural
Leonardo da Vinci's
from THE ARCTIC OX (1964)
Blue Bug
To Victor Hugo of My Crow Pluto
Baseball and Writing
To a Giraffe
Arthur Mitchell
Tell Me, Tell Me
Rescue with Yul Brynner
Carnegie Hall: Rescued
An Expedient-Leonardo da Vinci's-and a Query
from TELL ME, TELL ME (1966)
Granite and Steel
In Lieu of the Lyre
The mind, intractable thing
Dream
Old Amusement Park
W. S. Landor
Charity Overcoming Envy
Saint Valentine,
POEMS 1963-1970
I've been Thinking . . .
Love in America?
Tippoo's Tiger
The Camperdown Elm
Mercifully,
"Like a Wave at the Curl"
Enough
The Magician's Retreat
APPENDIX: POEMS 1915-1918
To a Man Working his Way through the Crowd
To the Soul of "Progress"
That Harp You Play So Well
Counseil to a Bacheler
Appellate Jurisdiction
To William Butler Yeats on Tagore
To a Friend in the Making
Blake
Diogenes
Feed Me, Also, River God
He Made This Screen
Holes Bored in a Workbag by the Scissors
Apropos of Mice
The Just Man And
In "Designing a Cloak to Cloak his Designs," you Wrested from Oblivion, a Coat of Immortality for your own Use.
The Past is the Present
You Say You Said
Old Tiger
MOORE'S NOTES
EDITOR'S NOTES
EDITING THE POEMS
NOTES
Observations
Poems 1932-1936
The Pangolin and Other Verse
from What Are Years
Nevertheless
Poems 1944-1951
Like a Bulwark
from O to Be a Dragon
from The Arctic Ox
from Tell Me, Tell Me
Poems 1963-1970
Appendix: Poems 1915-1918
Sources for Moore's Notes
ORIGINAL TABLES OF CONTENTS
WORKS CITED
INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES