{"product_id":"the-poems-of-marianne-moore-isbn-9780143039082","title":"The Poems of Marianne Moore","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis complete collection of Moore’s poetry, lovingly edited by prize-winning poet Grace Schulman, for the first time gathers together all of Moore’s poems, including more than a hundred that were previously uncollected and unpublished. This long-awaited volume will reveal to Moore’s admirers the scope of her poetic voice and will introduce new generations of readers to her extraordinary achievement.\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003eThe Poems of Marianne MooreIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrelude, December 25, 1895\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDear St. Nicklus;\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEarly Poems, 1907-1913\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder a Patched Sail\u003cbr\u003eTo Come After a Sonnet\u003cbr\u003eTo My Cup-Bearer\u003cbr\u003eThe Sentimentalist\u003cbr\u003eHe Made This Screen\u003cbr\u003eEnnui\u003cbr\u003eA Red Flower\u003cbr\u003eA Jelly-Fish\u003cbr\u003eProgress\u003cbr\u003eA Fish\u003cbr\u003eMy Lantern\u003cbr\u003eTunica Pallio Proprior\u003cbr\u003eMy Senses Do Not Deceive Me\u003cbr\u003eQui S'Excuse, S'Accuse\u003cbr\u003eElfride, Making Epigrams\u003cbr\u003eA Talisman\u003cbr\u003eLeaves of a Magazine\u003cbr\u003eThe Beast of Burden\u003cbr\u003eThings Are What They Seem\u003cbr\u003eThis Is The Way Toads Talk:\u003cbr\u003eTo Pierrot Returning to His Orchid\u003cbr\u003eTo Pharaoh's Baker Plucking Up Courage to Ask the Interpretation of His Dream, When a Favorable Interpretation Had Been Accorded the Dream of Pharaoh's Butler\u003cbr\u003ePiningly\u003cbr\u003eArtificers and the Alchemist\u003cbr\u003eTo You1—of the World, Not in the World:\u003cbr\u003eWisdom at Last\u003cbr\u003eTo a Stiff-winged Grasshopper\u003cbr\u003eEmeralds\u003cbr\u003eSun, Moon, and Stars: Polyphonic Craftsman, Coated Like a Zebra, Fleeing Like the Wild Ass, Mourning Like a Dove,\u003cbr\u003eAll of It, as Recorded\u003cbr\u003e\"Am I a Brother to Dragons and a Companion to Owls?\"\u003cbr\u003e\"And Shall Life Pass an Old Maid By?\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Assassins\u003cbr\u003eAxiomatic\u003cbr\u003eReprobate Silver\u003cbr\u003eThe Candle-Stick Maker\u003cbr\u003e\"Coral-and-Brown\" Admiring Herself in the Mirror\u003cbr\u003e\"Crepe Hanger?\" He\u003cbr\u003eTo a Cantankerous Poet Ignoring His Compeers—Thomas Hardy, Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Henry James\u003cbr\u003eThe Fashion, Poor Lady, Behaving Like a Dungeon, Looking Like a Church\u003cbr\u003eFlints, Not Flowers\u003cbr\u003eThe Grass That Perisheth\u003cbr\u003eGuillemots\u003cbr\u003eHe Did Mend It. His Body Filled a Substantial Interstice\u003cbr\u003e\"I Like a Horse but I Have a Fellow Feeling for a Mule\"\u003cbr\u003eI Tell You No Lie\u003cbr\u003eIchabod\u003cbr\u003eInheritance\u003cbr\u003e\"It Makes No Difference to Balbus Whether He Drinks Wine or Water\"\u003cbr\u003eKay Nielson in \u003ci\u003eCinderella\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKay Nielson's Little Green Patch in the Midst of the Forest\u003cbr\u003eA Lady with Pearls, to a Blood Red Rook from Turkey, Who Has Depicted Her with Pathos in Surly Monotone\u003cbr\u003eLight through a Keyhole\u003cbr\u003eLike Bertram Dobell, You Achieve Distinction by Disclaiming It\u003cbr\u003eMajestic Haystack\u003cbr\u003eMan's Feet Are a Sensational Device\u003cbr\u003ePatriotic Sentiment and the Maker\u003cbr\u003eAs Has Been Said\u003cbr\u003eRencontre\u003cbr\u003eRodin's \u003ci\u003ePenseur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuaviter in Modo\u003cbr\u003eTo See It Is To Know That Mendelssohn Would Never Do:\u003cbr\u003eTo Worldly Wisemen Recommending the Town of Carnal Policy as a Substitute for the Celestial City\u003cbr\u003eGod Bless You, Sir\u003cbr\u003eWe All Know It\u003cbr\u003eWhy That Question:\u003cbr\u003eYou Are Very Passive—Hammering Out in Darkness What Will Not Bear the Light of Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLittle Magazines, 1915-1919\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEzra Pound:\u003cbr\u003eTo a Man Working His Way Through the Crowd\u003cbr\u003eTo Military Progress\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePouters and Fantails\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat Harp You Play So Well\u003cbr\u003eTo an Intra-Mural Rat\u003cbr\u003eCounseil to a Bachelor\u003cbr\u003eAppellate Jurisdiction\u003cbr\u003eThe Wizard in Words\u003cbr\u003eTo William Butler Yeats on Tagore\u003cbr\u003eThe North Wind to a Dutiful Beast Midway Between the Dial and the Foot of a Garden Clock\u003cbr\u003eIsaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel\u003cbr\u003eTo a Strategist\u003cbr\u003eInjudicious Gardening\u003cbr\u003eTo a Prize Bird\u003cbr\u003eDiligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight\u003cbr\u003eTo a Steam Roller\u003cbr\u003eTo Statecraft Embalmed\u003cbr\u003eTo a Friend in the Making\u003cbr\u003eBlake\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo far as the future is concerned, \"Shall we not say, with  the Russian philosopher, 'How is one to know what one doesn't know?'\" So far as the present is concerned,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMasks\u003cbr\u003eDiogenes\u003cbr\u003eSun\u003cbr\u003e\"He Wrote the History Book\"\u003cbr\u003eTo a Chameleon\u003cbr\u003eIs Your Town Nineveh?\u003cbr\u003eYou Are Fire Eaters\u003cbr\u003ePedantic Literalist\u003cbr\u003eCritics and Connoisseurs\u003cbr\u003eIn This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good and\u003cbr\u003eTo Be Liked by You Would Be a Calamity\u003cbr\u003eFeed Me, Also, River God\u003cbr\u003eApropos of Mice\u003cbr\u003e\"She Trimmed the Candles Like One Who Loves the Beautiful\"\u003cbr\u003eIn \"Designing a Cloak to Cloak His Designs,\" You Wrested from Oblivion a Coat of Immortality for Your Own Use\u003cbr\u003eHoles Bored in a Workbag by the Scissors\u003cbr\u003eThe Just Man and\u003cbr\u003eThose Various Scalpels\u003cbr\u003eLike a Bulrush\u003cbr\u003eTo the Peacock of France\u003cbr\u003eSojourn in the Whale\u003cbr\u003eRoses Only\u003cbr\u003eThe Monkeys\u003cbr\u003eMelanchthon\u003cbr\u003eAn Ardent Platonist\u003cbr\u003eReinforcements\u003cbr\u003eThe Fish\u003cbr\u003eCallot-Drecol-Cheruit-Jenny-Doucet-Aviotte-Lady\u003cbr\u003eYou Say You Said\u003cbr\u003eOld Tiger\u003cbr\u003eRadical\u003cbr\u003ePoetry\u003cbr\u003eIn the Days of Prismatic Color\u003cbr\u003eDock Rats\u003cbr\u003ePicking and Choosing\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Dial Years, 1920-1925\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngland\u003cbr\u003eLines on a Visit of Anne Carroll Moore to Hudson Park Branch\u003cbr\u003eWhen I Buy Pictures\u003cbr\u003eA Grave\u003cbr\u003eNew York\u003cbr\u003eThe Labors of Hercules\u003cbr\u003eSnakes, Mongooses, Snake-Charmers, and the Like\u003cbr\u003ePeople's Surroundings\u003cbr\u003eNovices\u003cbr\u003eBowls\u003cbr\u003eMarriage\u003cbr\u003eSilence\u003cbr\u003eSea Unicorns and Land Unicorns\u003cbr\u003eAn Octopus\u003cbr\u003eAn Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish\u003cbr\u003eTo a Snail\u003cbr\u003e\"The Bricks Are Fallen Down, We Will Build with Hewn Stones. The Sycamores Are Cut Down, We Will Change to Cedars\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Nothing Will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape\"\u003cbr\u003ePeter\u003cbr\u003eThe Monkey Puzzle\u003cbr\u003eA Fool, a Foul Thing, a Distressful Lunatic\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLyrics and Sequences, 1926-1940\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Steeple-Jack\u003cbr\u003eThe Student\u003cbr\u003eThe Hero\u003cbr\u003eNo Swan So Fine\u003cbr\u003eThe Jerboa\u003cbr\u003eTo Peace\u003cbr\u003eThe Plumet Basilisk\u003cbr\u003eCamellia Sabina\u003cbr\u003eThe Frigate Pelican\u003cbr\u003eThe Buffalo\u003cbr\u003eNine Nectarines\u003cbr\u003ePigeons\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Britannia\u003cbr\u003eBird-Witted\u003cbr\u003eHalf Deity\u003cbr\u003eSmooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle\u003cbr\u003eThe Pangolin\u003cbr\u003eWalking-Sticks and Paper-Weights and Water Marks\u003cbr\u003eSee in the Midst of Fair Leaves\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorld War II and After, 1940-1956\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFour Quartz Crystal Clocks\u003cbr\u003eWhat Are Years\u003cbr\u003eThe Paper Nautilus\u003cbr\u003eRigorists\u003cbr\u003eLight Is Speech\u003cbr\u003eHe \"Digesteth Harde Yron\"\u003cbr\u003eSpenser's Ireland\u003cbr\u003eThe Wood-Weasel\u003cbr\u003ePale Morning Moon, Dark Blue Black Sea,\u003cbr\u003eYou, Your Horse\u003cbr\u003eIn Distrust of Merits\u003cbr\u003eNevertheless\u003cbr\u003eElephants\u003cbr\u003eThe Mind Is an Enchanting Thing\u003cbr\u003eA Carriage from Sweden\u003cbr\u003e\"Keeping Their World Large\"\u003cbr\u003eHis Shield\u003cbr\u003ePropriety\u003cbr\u003eAdvent\u003cbr\u003eA Face\u003cbr\u003eEfforts of Affection\u003cbr\u003eAt Rest in the Blast\u003cbr\u003eLike a Bulwark\u003cbr\u003eVoracities and Verities Sometimes Are Interacting\u003cbr\u003eBy Disposition of Angels\u003cbr\u003eArmor's Undermining Modesty\u003cbr\u003eThe Stuttering Quagmires Speak\u003cbr\u003eThe Icosasphere\u003cbr\u003ePretiolae\u003cbr\u003eQuoting an Also Private Thought\u003cbr\u003eWe Call Them the Brave\u003cbr\u003eThen the Ermine:\u003cbr\u003eApparition of Splendor\u003cbr\u003eTom Fool at Jamaica\u003cbr\u003eThe Web One Weaves of Italy\u003cbr\u003eRosemary\u003cbr\u003eThe Staff of Aesculapius\u003cbr\u003eThe Sycamore\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Magic Flute, 1956-1965\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStyle\u003cbr\u003eLogic and \"The Magic Flute\"\u003cbr\u003eBlessed Is The Man\u003cbr\u003eValues in Use\u003cbr\u003eHometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reece\u003cbr\u003eO to Be a Dragon\u003cbr\u003eEnough: Jamestown, 1607-1957\u003cbr\u003eMelchior Vulpius\u003cbr\u003eIn the Public Garden\u003cbr\u003eThe Arctic Ox (or Goat)\u003cbr\u003eSaint Nicholas\u003cbr\u003eFor February 14th\u003cbr\u003eNo Better Than \"a Withered Daffodil\"\u003cbr\u003eCombat Cultural\u003cbr\u003eLeonardo da Vinci's\u003cbr\u003eSaint Valentine,\u003cbr\u003eLines for Narrator\u003cbr\u003eTell Me, Tell Me\u003cbr\u003eCarnegie Hall: Rescued\u003cbr\u003eRescue with Yul Brynner\u003cbr\u003eTo Victor Hugo of My Crow Pluto\u003cbr\u003eYvor Winters—\u003cbr\u003eBaseball and Writing\u003cbr\u003eArthur Mitchell\u003cbr\u003eBlue Bug\u003cbr\u003eCharity Overcoming Envy\u003cbr\u003eTo a Giraffe\u003cbr\u003e\"Avec Ardeur\"\u003cbr\u003eW. S. Landor\u003cbr\u003eThe Master Tailor\u003cbr\u003eAn Expedient—Leonardo da Vinci's—and a Query\u003cbr\u003eOld Amusement Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLate Poems, 1965-1972\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDream\u003cbr\u003eIn Lieu of the Lyre\u003cbr\u003eThe Mind, Intractable Thing\u003cbr\u003eGranite and Steel\u003cbr\u003eLove in America—\u003cbr\u003eFor Katharine Elizabeth McBride, President of Bryn Mawr College\u003cbr\u003eTippoo's Tiger\u003cbr\u003eThe Camperdown Elm\u003cbr\u003eAssistance\u003cbr\u003eMercifully\u003cbr\u003e\"Reminiscent of a Wave at the Curl\"\u003cbr\u003eA Christmas Poem\u003cbr\u003eEnough\u003cbr\u003eThe Magician's Retreat\u003cbr\u003ePrevalent at One Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelections from \u003ci\u003eThe Fables of La Fontaine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fox and the Grapes\u003cbr\u003eThe Lion in Love\u003cbr\u003eThe Animals Sick of the Plague\u003cbr\u003eThe Bear and the Garden-Lover\u003cbr\u003eThe Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarianne Moore's Notes\u003cbr\u003eEditor's Notes, with the Poetry's Attributions and Variants\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Titles and First Lines\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (altnerate volume)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Award (alternate volume)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A splendid, much-needed edition... by one of the most witty, alert, scapular and truthful American modernists. —\u003cb\u003eEdward Hirsch\u003c\/b\u003e, “Highly Recommended Poetry Books of 2003,” \u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I am tempted simply to call her our greatest modern poet.\" —\u003cb\u003eJohn Ashbery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarianne Moore\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003eThe Egoist\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003ePoetry\u003c\/b\u003e magazines in 1915 and she moved to New York City in 1918.  Her first book, \u003cb\u003ePoems\u003c\/b\u003e, was issued in England by the Egoist Press in 1921.  \u003cb\u003eObservations\u003c\/b\u003e, published three years later in America, received the Dial Award.  From 1925 to 1929 she served as acting editor of \u003cb\u003eThe Dial\u003c\/b\u003e, the preeminent American literary periodical.  She moved to Brooklyn in 1929, where she lived for the next thirty-six years.  In 1935 \u003cb\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/b\u003e, with an Introduction by T.S. Eliot, brought her work to the attention of a wider public. \u003cp\u003eThree additional books of poetry were followed, in 1951, by her \u003cb\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/b\u003e, which won the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.  She went on to publish a verse translation of the complete \u003cb\u003eFables of La Fontaine\u003c\/b\u003e, a collection of critical essays, and three more volumes of poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299913781477,"sku":"NP9780143039082","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143039082.jpg?v=1767740987","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-poems-of-marianne-moore-isbn-9780143039082","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}