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Article: The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore.(Review)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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Bonnie Costello, editor, with Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore. Knopf, 597 pages, $35
With this selection of the letters of Marianne Moore (1887-1972), Bonnie Costello and her collaborators have winnowed to one volume the poet's extensive correspondence of some thirty thousand surviving missives. Though she wrote fewer than George Bernard Shaw, who by his editor's estimate dashed off in the neighborhood of two hundred and fifty thousand communiques, the number and general length of Moore's letters will impress many a present-day litterateur whose own correspondence might comprise, at best, a slim edition of collected ...