Marianne Moore. American modernist writer and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize.
Biographical summary
Early years
He was born on November 15, 1887 in Kirkwood , Missouri , United States . He studied Biology at Bryn Mawr, and later moved to New York , where he would reside until his death. There he became friends with William C. Williams and Ezra Pound , members of the group of modernist poets whose work invigorated American literature at the beginning of the 20th century .
Literary career
In addition to her poetry collections, she published prose and some translations. In 1933 she was awarded the Helen Haire Levinson Prize by Poetry magazine. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her collection of poems, Collected Poems , 1951 , as well as the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize . She was an enthusiast of sports and sportsmen, and especially admired Muhammad Ali , with whom she collaborated on his recital album I Am the Greatest! by writing a few lines.
He continued to publish poems in other journals, such as The Nation, The New Republic and Partisan Review, as well as publishing several works and collections of poetry and literary criticism. He also corresponded with W. H. Auden and Ezra Pound while the latter was imprisoned.
His temperament was always too discreet and sensible to produce texts that say how poetry should be done now, in the manner of so many of his contemporaries. His personal poetry was always admired by his peers.
Death
He died on February 5, 1972 in New York , United States at the age of 84.
Works
- Poems, 1921.
- Observations, 1924.
- Selected Poems, 1935.
- The Pangolin and Other Verse, 1936.
- What Are Years, 1941.
- Nevertheless, 1944.
- A Face, 1949.
- Collected Poems, 1951.
- Fables of La Fontaine, 1954.
- Predilections: Literary Essays, 1955.
- Like a Bulwark, 1956.
- Or To Be a Dragon, 1959.
- Idiosyncrasy and Technique, 1959.
- The Marianne Moore Reader, 1961.
- The Absentee: A Comedy in Four Acts, 1962.
- Puss in Boots, The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, 1963.
- Dress and Kindred Subjects, 1965.
- Poetry and Criticism, 1965.
- Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel and Other Topics, 1966.
- Idiosyncrasy and Technique, 1966.
- The Complete Poems, 1967.
- The Accented Syllable, 1969.
- Homage to Henry James, 1971.
- The Complete Poems, 1981.
- The Complete Prose, 1986.
- The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore, edited by Bonnie Costello, Celested Goodridge, and Cristann Miller. Knopf, 1997.