Complete Poems
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A Penguin Classic
This definitive edition brings together all the works that Pulitzer Prize-winning Marianne Moore wished to preserve, covering more than sixty years of writing, and incorporating the final revisions she made to the texts. The poems demonstrate Moore's wide range of interests, moving from witty images of animals, sporting events, and social institutions, to thoughtful meditations on human nature. In entertaining informative notes, Moore reveals the inspiration for complete poems and individual lines within them.
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Three additional books of poetry were followed, in 1951, by her Collected Poems, which won the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. She went on to publish a verse translation of the complete Fables of La Fontaine, a collection of critical essays, and three more volumes of poems.
Among the many awards Marianne Moore received are the National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for poetry, the Poetry Scoiety of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement, and the National Medal for Literature, America's highest literary honor. A member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters since 1947, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1955. In 1967 she was made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic, and in 1969 she received an honorary doctorate in literature from Harvard University, her sixteenth honorary degree. Marianne Moore died in New York City, in her eighty-fifth year, on February 5, 1972.
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Selected Poems (1935) The Steeple-Jack The Hero The Jerboa Camellia Sabina No Swan So Fine The Plumet Basilisk The Frigate Pelican The Buffalo Nine Nectarines To a Prize Bird The Fish In This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good and To Statecraft Embalmed Poetry Pedantic Literalist Critics and Connoisseurs The Monkeys In the Days of Prismatic Color Peter 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 An Octopus Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns The Monkey Puzzle Injudicious Gardening To Military Progress An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish To a Steam Roller To a Snail "Nothing Will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape" To the Peacock of France The Past Is the Present "He Wrote the History Book" Sojourn in the Whale Silence
What Are Years (1941) What Are Years? Rigorists Light Is Speech He "Digesteth Harde Yron" The Student Smooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle Bird-Witted Virginia Brittania Spenser's Ireland Four Quartz Crystal Clocks The Pangolin The Paper Nautilus
Nevertheless (1944) Nevertheless The Wood-Weasel Elephants A Carriage from Sweden The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing In Distrust of Merits
Collected Later (1951) A Face By Disposition of Angels The Icosasphere His Shield "Keeping Their World Large" Efforts of Affection Voracities and Verities Sometimes Are Interacting Propriety Armor's Undermining Modesty
II. LATER POEMS
Like a Bulwark (1956) Like a Bulwark 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
O To Be a Dragon O to Be a Dragon I May, I Might, I Must To a Chameleon A Jelly-Fish 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
Tell Me, Tell Me (1966) Granite and Steel In Lieu of the Lyre The Mind, Intractable Thing Dream Old Amusement Park An Expedient - Leonardo da Vinci's - and a Query W. S. Landor To a Giraffe Charity Overcoming Envy Blue Bug Arthur Mitchell Baseball and Writing To Victor Hugo of My Crow Pluto Rescue with Yul Brynner Carnegie Hall: Rescued Tell Me, Tell Me Saint Valentine Sun
Hitherto Uncollected "Avec Ardeur" Love in America - Tippoo's Tiger The Camperdown Elm Mercifully "Reminiscent of a Wave at the Curl" Enough: 1969 The Magician's Retreat Prevalent at One Time
Selections from The Fables of La Fontaine (1954) The Fox and the Grapes The Lion in Love The Animals Sick of the Plague The Bear and the Garden-Lover The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid
A Note on the Notes Notes Index of Titles and Opening Lines
