Article: The eclectic wit of Marianne Moore // Collecting prose of a master

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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