MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) was an American Modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor whose work distilled moral and intellectual insights from the close and accurate observation of objective detail. Moore's work was widely recognized: her COLLECTED POEMS (1951) won both the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the National Book Award, and in 1953 she was awarded the Bollingen Prize.
Moore's poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit. She wrote with the freedom characteristic of other modernist poets, often incorporating quotes from other sources into the text, yet her use of language was always extraordinarily condensed and precise, capable of suggesting a variety of ideas and associations within a single, compact image. In his 1925 essay on Moore, William Carlos Williams wrote about her signature mode, the vastness of the particular: "So that in looking at some apparently small object, one feels the swirl of great events."
In addition to poetry, Moore wrote a significant number of prose pieces, including reviews and essays. Her prose works cover a broad range of subjects: painting, sculpture, literature, music, fashion, herbal medicine, and sports -- she was an avid baseball fan and wrote the liner notes for Muhammed Ali's record, "I Am the Greatest!"
The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as indicated:
* Complete Poems (Penguin, 1994) -- ePUB + PDF
* Complete Prose (Viking, 1986). Edited by Patricia C. Willis -- PDF
* New Collected Poems (Faber, 2017). Edited by Heather Cass White -- ePUB
* Observations: Poems (FSG, 2016). Edited by Linda Leavell -- ePUB
* Predilections: Literary Essays (Viking, 1955) -- PDF
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