Marianne Moore (1887-1972) has been heralded as America's greatest poet of the modernist movement. Her volume
Collected Poems won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and the Bollingen Prize in 1953.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Moore eventually found her way to New York with her mother whom she continued to live with until her mother passed, a familial devotion so intense that William Carlos Williams complained that it was 'pathological' and prevented her from marrying any 'literary guys'. Moore never married. Linda Leavall is the first biographer to be granted access and freedom to quote from Moore's archives. More than just a standard biography, Leavall re-examines Moore's body of work to complement and enlighten the biography.
Through Moore's poems and letters from T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and many others, Leavall has written what is sure to be the definitive biography of Moore.
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LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Family Tree
- 1: Sojourn in the Whale December 1915
- 2: A Genius for Disunion to 1887
- 3: Designing Heaven 1887–1896
- 4: A Peculiar People 1896–1904
- 5: The Edge of a Precipice 1904–1906
- 6: Possessed to Write 1906–1908
- 7: Appropriating 1908–1909
- 8: Wild and Glorious 1909–1910
- 9: An Intramural Rat 1911–1914
- 10: A Fine Steel Blade 1914–1916
- 11: Defiant Edifice 1916–1918
- 12: The Secret of Expansion 1918–1920
- 13: Bluebeard’s Tower 1920–1921
- 14: Liberty and Union 1921–1923
- 15: The Unbridled Leap 1923–1925
- 16: Picking and Choosing 1925–1929
- 17: Where One Does Not Wish to Go 1929–1932
- 18: Debts of Gratitude 1932–1934
- 19: The Sea in a Chasm 1934–1939
- 20: Hindered to Succeed 1940–1944
- 21: Perseverance 1945–1953
- 22: A Luminescent Paul Revere 1950–1956
- 23: Coney Island Fun Fair Victim 1957–1968
- 24: Senior Citizen of the Year 1961–1972
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright
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