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Complete Poems by Marianne Moore (1994, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Complete Poems, Paperback by Moore, Marianne, ISBN 0140188517, ISBN-13 9780140188516, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Poems covering a wide range of topics, from images of animals to meditations on human nature, are accompanied by the author's notes revealing the inspiration for many of the poems
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140188517
ISBN-139780140188516
eBay Product ID (ePID)41522
Product Key Features
Book TitleComplete Poems
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWomen Authors, General, American / General
Publication Year1994
GenrePoetry, Literary Collections
AuthorMarianne Moore
Book SeriesClassic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (alternate volume) Winner of the National Book Award (alternate volume)
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal811
Table Of ContentComplete PoemsAuthor's Note A Note on the Text I. COLLECTED POEMS (1951) Selected Poems (1935) The Steeple-Jack The Hero The Jerboa Camellia Sabina No Swan So Fine The Plumet Basilisk The Frigate Pelican The Buffalo Nine Nectarines To a Prize Bird The Fish In This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good and To Statecraft Embalmed Poetry Pedantic Literalist Critics and Connoisseurs The Monkeys In the Days of Prismatic Color Peter Picking and Choosing England When I Buy Pictures A Grave Those Various Scalpels The Labors of Hercules New York People's Surroundings Snakes, Mongooses, Snake-Charmers, and the Like Bowls Novices Marriage An Octopus Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns The Monkey Puzzle Injudicious Gardening To Military Progress An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish To a Steam Roller To a Snail "Nothing Will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape" To the Peacock of France The Past Is the Present "He Wrote the History Book" Sojourn in the Whale Silence What Are Years (1941) What Are Years? Rigorists Light Is Speech He "Digesteth Harde Yron" The Student Smooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle Bird-Witted Virginia Brittania Spenser's Ireland Four Quartz Crystal Clocks The Pangolin The Paper Nautilus Nevertheless (1944) Nevertheless The Wood-Weasel Elephants A Carriage from Sweden The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing In Distrust of Merits Collected Later (1951) A Face By Disposition of Angels The Icosasphere His Shield "Keeping Their World Large" Efforts of Affection Voracities and Verities Sometimes Are Interacting Propriety Armor's Undermining Modesty II. LATER POEMS Like a Bulwark (1956) Like a Bulwark Apparition of Splendor Then the Ermine Tom Fool at Jamaica The Web One Weaves of Italy The Staff of Aesculapius The Sycamore Rosemary Style Logic and "The Magic Flute" Blessed Is the Man O To Be a Dragon O to Be a Dragon I May, I Might, I Must To a Chameleon A Jelly-Fish Values in Use Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese Enough: Jamestown, 1607-1957 Melchior Vulpius No Better Than a "Withered Daffodil" In the Public Garden The Arctic Ox (or Goat) Saint Nicholas For February 14th Combat Cultural Leonardo da Vinci's Tell Me, Tell Me (1966) Granite and Steel In Lieu of the Lyre The Mind, Intractable Thing Dream Old Amusement Park An Expedient - Leonardo da Vinci's - and a Query W. S. Landor To a Giraffe Charity Overcoming Envy Blue Bug Arthur Mitchell Baseball and Writing To Victor Hugo of My Crow Pluto Rescue with Yul Brynner Carnegie Hall: Rescued Tell Me, Tell Me Saint Valentine Sun Hitherto Uncollected "Avec Ardeur" Love in America - Tippoo's Tiger The Camperdown Elm Mercifully "Reminiscent of a Wave at the Curl" Enough: 1969 The Magician's Retreat Prevalent at One Time Selections from The Fables of La Fontaine (1954) The Fox and the Grapes The Lion in Love The Animals Sick of the Plague The Bear and the Garden-Lover The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid A Note on the Notes Notes Index of Titles and Opening Lines
Synopsis"Teems with sharp observation, profound moral insight, high satiric wit, and all manner of aesthetic delight." -The New York Times Book Review A Penguin Classic This definitive edition brings together all the works that Pulitzer Prize-winning Marianne Moore wished to preserve, covering more than sixty years of writing, and incorporating the final revisions she made to the texts. The poems demonstrate Moore's wide range of interests, moving from witty images of animals, sporting events, and social institutions, to thoughtful meditations on human nature. In entertaining informative notes, Moore reveals the inspiration for complete poems and individual lines within them. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
LC Classification NumberPR9272.9.W3
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