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Article: The eclectic wit of Marianne Moore // Collecting prose of a master
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 30, 1986
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The Complete Prose of Marianne MooreEdited and with an Introduction
by Patricia C. Willis. Viking. $24.95.
"I was born in Missouri in 1887, was graduated from Bryn Mawr in
1900 and live in Brooklyn in a six-story yellow brick and lime-stone
apartment house on what is known as The Hill."
Moore (who died in 1972) was idiosyncratic but not specialized,
this most individual of American literati. Even her earliest
published work - in the Bryn Mawr literary magazine, Tipyn o'Bob - is
at once old-fashioned and ahead of its time: old-fashioned because
she knew and loved literature, advanced because her voice was
original. Even when it was not altogether clear, it was her own: "My
looks are a ...
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