New Collected Poems

Informationen zum Autor Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was an American poet, critic, editor, and translator, greatly admired for her formal innovations and startling vision. Her poetry received many honors, including the Dial Award, the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Bollingen Prize. Her poetry books include Observations and New Collected Poems . Heather Cass White has edited two previous collections of Marianne Moore's poetry, A-Quiver with Significance: Marianne Moore, 1932-1936 (2008), and Adversity & Grace: Marianne Moore, 1936-1941 (2012). She is Professor of English at the University of Alabama. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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, 1607-195...

Product details

• Authors: Marianne Moore
• Assisted by: Heather Cass White (Editor)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780374537746
• ISBN: 978-0-374-53774-6
• No. of pages: 480
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama