Holding On Upside Down
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Holding On Upside Down

The Life and Work of Marianne Moore

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eBook - ePub

Holding On Upside Down

The Life and Work of Marianne Moore

About this book

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.

Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2013
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780571301836
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Family Tree
  9. 1: Sojourn in the Whale December 1915
  10. 2: A Genius for Disunion to 1887
  11. 3: Designing Heaven 1887–1896
  12. 4: A Peculiar People 1896–1904
  13. 5: The Edge of a Precipice 1904–1906
  14. 6: Possessed to Write 1906–1908
  15. 7: Appropriating 1908–1909
  16. 8: Wild and Glorious 1909–1910
  17. 9: An Intramural Rat 1911–1914
  18. 10: A Fine Steel Blade 1914–1916
  19. 11: Defiant Edifice 1916–1918
  20. 12: The Secret of Expansion 1918–1920
  21. 13: Bluebeard’s Tower 1920–1921
  22. 14: Liberty and Union 1921–1923
  23. 15: The Unbridled Leap 1923–1925
  24. 16: Picking and Choosing 1925–1929
  25. 17: Where One Does Not Wish to Go 1929–1932
  26. 18: Debts of Gratitude 1932–1934
  27. 19: The Sea in a Chasm 1934–1939
  28. 20: Hindered to Succeed 1940–1944
  29. 21: Perseverance 1945–1953
  30. 22: A Luminescent Paul Revere 1950–1956
  31. 23: Coney Island Fun Fair Victim 1957–1968
  32. 24: Senior Citizen of the Year 1961–1972
  33. Notes
  34. Acknowledgments
  35. Index
  36. Plates
  37. About the Author
  38. Copyright

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