Complete Poems

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Penguin, 1 лист. 1994 р. - 320 стор.
“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.

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The SteepleJack
5
The Hero
8
The Jerboa
10
Camellia Sabina
16
No Swan No Fine
19
The Plumet Basilisk
20
The Frigate Pelican
25
The Buffalo
27
Voracities and Verities Sometimes Are Interacting
148
Propriety
149
Armors Undermining Modesty
151
II LATER POEMS
153
LIKE A BULWARK 1956
155
Like a Bulwark
157
Apparition of Splendor
158
Then the Ermine
160

Nine Nectarines
29
To a Prize Bird
31
The Fish
32
In This Age of Hard Trying Nonchalance is Good and
34
To Statecraft Embalmed
35
Poetry
36
Pedantic Literalist
37
Critics and Connoisseurs
38
The Monkeys
40
In the Days of Prismatic Color
41
Peter
43
Picking and Choosing
45
England
46
When I Buy Pictures
48
A Grave
49
Those Various Scalpels
51
The Labors of Hercules
53
New York
54
Peoples Surroundings
55
Snakes Mongooses SnakeCharmers and the Like
58
Bowls
59
Novices
60
Marriage
62
An Octopus
71
Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns
77
The Monkey Puzzle
80
Injudicious Gardening
81
To Military Progress
82
An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish
83
To a Steam Roller
84
To a Snail
85
Nothing Will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape
86
To the Peacock of France
87
The Past Is the Present
88
He Wrote the History Book
89
Sojourn in the Whale
90
Silence
91
WHAT ARE YEARS 1941
93
What Are Years?
95
Rigorists
96
Light Is Speech
97
He Digesteth Harde Yron
99
The Student
101
Smooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle
103
BirdWitted
105
Virginia Britannia
107
Spensers Ireland
112
Four Quartz Crystal Clocks
115
The Pangolin
117
The Paper Nautilus
121
NEVERTHELESS 1944
123
Nevertheless
125
The WoodWeasel
127
Elephants
128
A Carriage from Sweden
131
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing
134
In Distrust of Merits
136
COLLECTED LATER 1951
139
A Face
141
By Disposition of Angels
142
The Icosasphere
143
His Shield
144
Keeping Their World Large
145
Efforts of Affection
147
Tom Fool at Jamaica
162
The Web One Weaves of Italy
164
The Staff of Aesculapius
165
The Sycamore
167
Rosemary
168
Style
169
Logic and The Magic Flute
171
Blessed Is the Man
173
O TO BE A DRAGON 1959
175
O to Be a Dragon
177
I May I Might I Must
178
To a Chameleon
179
A JellyFish
180
Values in Use
181
Hometown Pieces for Messrs Alston and Reese
182
Jamestown 16071957
185
Melchior Vulpius
188
No Better Than A Withered Daffodil
189
In the Public Garden
190
The Arctic Ox or Goat
193
Saint Nicholas
196
For February 14th
198
Combat Cultural
199
Leonardo da Vincis
201
TELL ME TELL ME 1966
203
Granite and Steel
205
In Lieu of the Lyre
206
The Mind Intractable Thing
208
Dream
209
Old Amusement Park
210
An ExpedientLeonardo da Vincis and a Query
212
WS Landor
214
To a Giraffe
215
Charity Overcoming Envy
216
Blue Bug
218
Arthur Mitchell
220
Baseball and Writing
221
To Victor Hugo of My Crow Pluto
224
Rescue with Yul Brynner
227
Rescued
229
Tell Me Tell Me
231
Saint Valentine
233
Sun
234
HITHERTO UNCOLLECTED
235
Avec Ardeur
237
Love in America
240
Tippoos Tiger
241
The Camperdown Elm
242
Mercifully
243
Reminiscent of a Wave at the Curl
244
1969
245
The Magicians Retreat
246
Prevalent at One Time
247
THE FABLES OF LA FONTAINE 1954
249
The Fox and the Grapes
251
The Lion in Love
252
The Animals Sick of the Plague
254
The Bear and the GardenLover
256
The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid
258
Notes
261
A Note on the Notes
262
Index of Titles and Opening Lines
299
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Marianne Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, on November 1, 1887, and spent much of her youth in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. After graduation from Bryn Mawr College in 1909 she taught for four years at the Carlisle Indian School. Her poetry first appeared professionally in The Egoist and Poetry magazines in 1915 and she moved to New York City in 1918. Her first book, Poems, was issued in England by the Egoist Press in 1921. Observations, published three years later in America, received the Dial Award. From 1925 to 1929 she served as acting editor of The Dial, the preeminent American literary periodical. She moved to Brooklyn in 1929, where she lived for the next thirty-six years. In 1935 Selected Poems, with an Introduction by T.S. Eliot, brought her work to the attention of a wider public.

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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