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Three additional books of poetry were followed, in 1951, by her Collected Poems, which won the Bollingen Prize, 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 Scoiety of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement, and the National Medal for Literature, America's highest literary honor. A member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters since 1947, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1955. In 1967 she was made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic, and in 1969 she received an honorary doctorate in literature from Harvard University, her sixteenth honorary degree. Marianne Moore died in New York City, in her eighty-fifth year, on February 5, 1972.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
perceptive and unassuming,
This review is from: Complete Poems (Paperback)
Marianne Moore's poetry is perceptive and unassuming. She often writes with a dry sense of humor. Her interest in sports, especially baseball, is also expressed in her poetry. She enjoys odd behavior in animals and writes about them just as they are. "An Octopus" is one of her longer poems and needs several readings to be appreciated. Moore creates poems that are filled with intuitive insight and beauty.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Building her own net,
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This review is from: Complete Poems (Paperback)
I believe that it was Robert Frost who commented with regards to modern poetry, that it was like playing tennis without a net. Marianne Moore created her own net - her poetry is built upon strict syllabic counts she imposed upon herself. The result is finely crafted poetry that is never self-indulgent.I have found her syllabic count to be a good way to introduce structure into student's poetry. I have found it to be a good writing exercise. And in using the structure in these ways, I have become ever more impressed with the quality of work she achieved. But more than the technical quality, I enjoy the humor and just plain fun of her animal poems.
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3.2 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews) 23 of 28 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Building her own net,
By M. J. Smith - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Complete Poems (Paperback)
I believe that it was Robert Frost who commented with regards to modern poetry, that it was like playing tennis without a net. Marianne Moore created her own net - her poetry is built upon strict syllabic counts she imposed upon herself. The result is finely crafted poetry that is never self-indulgent.I have found her syllabic count to be a good way to introduce structure into student's poetry. I have found it to be a good writing exercise. And in using the structure in these ways, I have become ever more impressed with the quality of work she achieved. But more than the technical quality, I enjoy the humor and just plain fun of her animal poems. 15 of 19 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
perceptive and unassuming,
By "coolhat" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Complete Poems (Paperback)
Marianne Moore's poetry is perceptive and unassuming. She often writes with a dry sense of humor. Her interest in sports, especially baseball, is also expressed in her poetry. She enjoys odd behavior in animals and writes about them just as they are. "An Octopus" is one of her longer poems and needs several readings to be appreciated. Moore creates poems that are filled with intuitive insight and beauty.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
In general, avoid purchasing poetry on Kindle,
By Ben - Published on Amazon.com
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While I love Marianne Moore's poetry, I wish I could return my Kindle edition of her collected poems. First, as a sidebar, this collected version only contains the three line version of 'Poetry,' which was Moore's final version of the poem; however, in many anthologies, the considerably longer, original version of the poem is printed, and this is the source of the discrepancy at least one other person noted.Second, my issue with this edition seems to be the mantra of most poetry readers who buy Kindle versions of poems: the formatting stinks. While this edition is not nearly as bad as Kindle's free version of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience (which is formatted completely in prose), it does not preserve the formatting of the poetry as originally created by Moore. Moore makes considerable use of indentation, a matter of form which is vital to the function of her poems, and this version does not preserve it - every line is left-aligned. So while this is better than some other poetry collections for Kindle, I would highly suggest purchasing the print version in order to attain the complete experience of Moore's poetry. |
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