Three Poems
"Spenser's Ireland"
"The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing"
" 'Avec Ardeur' "
from
The Poems of Marianne Moore
Edited by Grace Schulman Online Bookstore Listing
Marianne Moore: Marianne Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, on November 15,1887, and spent much of her youth in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. During her college years, her early poems appeared in Bryn Mawr publications, and, after her graduation, her poems began appearing in 1915 in The Egoist and in Poetry . In 1918 she moved to New York City, where she served as acting editor of The Dial , the preeminent American literary periodical. Marianne Moore's books of poetry include Poems, Observations, Selected Poems, What Are Years, Nevertheless , and Collected Poems , the last of which received all three of the major American poetry prizes: the Bollingen Award, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. She went on to publish a verse translation of the complete Fables of La Fontaine , a collection of critical essays, and three more volumes of poems. Among the many awards Marianne Moore received are the National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry, the Poetry Society of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement, and the National Medal for Literature, America's highest literary honor. She died in New York City, in her eighty-fifth year, on February 5, 1972.
Grace Schulman: Grace Schulman, recipient of the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern Poetry and the Delmore Schwartz Award for Poetry, is author, most recently, of | |
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