THE NATIONAL POETRY
FOUNDATION
MARIANNE MOORE: WOMAN AND POET
Patricia C. Willis, Editor
Growing out of the NPF centennial conference on Marianne Moore, this volume includes essays on the poet's life, her poetry, and her relationships with other writers and artists. Section One, "The Woman and Her Poetry," includes essays on Moore's Presbyterian affiliations and her relationship to New York City. Section Two, "The Poems and a Play," provides close readings of such important poems as "A Grave" and "Poetry," as well as more comprehensive discussions of her poetry and an essay on her one play, The Absentee. The third section, "Poet Among Poets, a Painter and Critics," offers discussions of Moore's relationships to other writers and artists, including Wallace Stevens, H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Josephine Miles, and Georgia O'Keeffe. The volume concludes with a 177-page annotated bibliography of critical works on Moore published from 1977 to 1990.
Contributions by: Grace Schulman, Andrew J. Kappel, John M. Slatin, Daniel L. Guillory, Charles Molesworth, Margaret Holley, Elizabeth Gregory, Bonnie Honigsblum, Sister Bernetta Quinn, Lisa Steinman, Betsy Erkkila, Cyrena A. Pondrom, and others.
1990 636 pages
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