Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Marianne Moore
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Standard Name: Moore, Marianne
Birth Name: Marianne Craig Moore
MM
was a pivotal figure in US poetry of the twentieth century. A recent editor has written that no major poet is cherished more and known less from that period in America.
Moore, Marianne. “Introduction”. The Poems of Marianne Moore, edited by Grace Schulman, Faber, p. xix - xxx.
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As well as poetry, MM
wrote translations, essays, criticism, and personal letters. She had an influential period as editor of the modernist journal the Dial. Her poems are characterised by precise, irregular, unrhymed verse forms and minutely detailed observation, often of semi-mythical animals used as ways of talking about the human condition. Always reluctant to let her work go out of her hands, and often self-deprecating about it, she published few books and let much of her poetry remain in periodicals.
Marianne Moore
was quoted on the dust-jacket: This collection is to me extraordinary—unforced, and masterly in a technical way, almost without exception. There are in the style traces of W. B. Yeats
and Thomas Hardy
MMG
, who lives in Northern Ireland, is well-regarded among contemporary poets writing in English. She began by writing a very private and reserved poetry. Using images from the home and from nature, she explored...
Literary responses
Jennifer Johnston
This quotation was used to head an enthusiastic notice by US critic Julia Epstein
in the Washington Post Book World. Johnston, wrote Epstein, coils her language so tightly that she achieves the compression we...
Education
H. D.
H. D.
attended Bryn Mawr College
in BrynMawr, Pennsylvania, for a year. One of her classmates was the poet Marianne Moore
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Family and Intimate relationships
H. D.
The two quickly began a romantic relationship that would be on and off again for ten years despite the disapproval of HD's father. Pound proposed for the first time in 1905 and was accepted. This...
Friends, Associates
H. D.
In addition to Pound
and her classmate Marianne Moore
, HD's friends from her teenage years in Pennsylvania included another poet, William Carlos Williams
.
Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin.
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Friends, Associates
H. D.
After her move to England, Ezra Pound
introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats
, T. S. Eliot
,...
Friends, Associates
H. D.
In Chicago on her US visit of 1920-1, HD met with Harriet Monroe
. In New York she renewed her acquaintance with friends from her early days in Pennsylvania: Marianne Moore
and William Carlos Williams
HD's reviews of poetry volumes for The Egoist show some of her literary principles already formed: the artist's responsibility to society as well as to art, her belief that art can stand against the selfishness...
Publishing
H. D.
HD's work also featured in the pages of Margaret Anderson
's and Jane Heap
's The Little Review and in the Dial, whose editor, Marianne Moore
, gave specific attention to establishing her reputation...
Literary responses
H. D.
The volume was reviewed on this day in the Times Literary Supplement. It was covered by Marianne Moore
for the Dial.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky.
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Reception
H. D.
Before this book was published, Marianne Moore
expressed great eagerness to see it, and Bryher
's preface to it.
Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky.
