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Article: The mystery of Marianne Moore.
- Article from:
- New Criterion
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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What most readers remember of Marianne Moore are her beasts--her jerboa, her ostrich, her pangolin. Late in her life, when the brilliant strangeness of her early poems had receded into the mists, she became a fabulous beast herself, poetry's most endearing mascot. In her tricorn hat she looked as if she'd just emerged from a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution; and her befuddled, otherworldly air suggested that poets were absentminded nocturnal creatures, unused to daylight. Her antics made poets, and poetry, seem slightly ridiculous--she threw out the first ball at a Yankees game and met that poet of the ring, Cassius Clay (soon to be known as Muhammad ...
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Article: The Marianne Mynah: a memoir of Marianne Moore.
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...On October 3, 1947, Marianne Moore wrote to her brother about a dinner ... this issue of the magazine to Marianne Moore, and she wrote back promptly ... stair, And under his iron door. Marianne Moore said of this poem, "William ...
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