{"product_id":"complete-poems-isbn-9780140188516","title":"Complete Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Teems with sharp observation, profound moral insight, high satiric wit, and all manner of aesthetic delight.”\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e–The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.Complete PoemsAuthor's Note\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. COLLECTED POEMS (1951)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected Poems (1935)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Steeple-Jack\u003cbr\u003eThe Hero\u003cbr\u003eThe Jerboa\u003cbr\u003eCamellia Sabina\u003cbr\u003eNo Swan So Fine\u003cbr\u003eThe Plumet Basilisk\u003cbr\u003eThe Frigate Pelican\u003cbr\u003eThe Buffalo\u003cbr\u003eNine Nectarines\u003cbr\u003eTo a Prize Bird\u003cbr\u003eThe Fish\u003cbr\u003eIn This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good and \u003cbr\u003eTo Statecraft Embalmed\u003cbr\u003ePoetry\u003cbr\u003ePedantic Literalist\u003cbr\u003eCritics and Connoisseurs\u003cbr\u003eThe Monkeys\u003cbr\u003eIn the Days of Prismatic Color\u003cbr\u003ePeter\u003cbr\u003ePicking and Choosing\u003cbr\u003eEngland\u003cbr\u003eWhen I Buy Pictures\u003cbr\u003eA Grave\u003cbr\u003eThose Various Scalpels\u003cbr\u003eThe Labors of Hercules\u003cbr\u003eNew York\u003cbr\u003ePeople's Surroundings\u003cbr\u003eSnakes, Mongooses, Snake-Charmers, and the Like\u003cbr\u003eBowls\u003cbr\u003eNovices\u003cbr\u003eMarriage\u003cbr\u003eAn Octopus\u003cbr\u003eSea Unicorns and Land Unicorns\u003cbr\u003eThe Monkey Puzzle\u003cbr\u003eInjudicious Gardening\u003cbr\u003eTo Military Progress\u003cbr\u003eAn Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish\u003cbr\u003eTo a Steam Roller\u003cbr\u003eTo a Snail\u003cbr\u003e\"Nothing Will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape\"\u003cbr\u003eTo the Peacock of France\u003cbr\u003eThe Past Is the Present\u003cbr\u003e\"He Wrote the History Book\"\u003cbr\u003eSojourn in the Whale\u003cbr\u003eSilence\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat Are Years (1941)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat Are Years?\u003cbr\u003eRigorists\u003cbr\u003eLight Is Speech\u003cbr\u003eHe \"Digesteth Harde Yron\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Student\u003cbr\u003eSmooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle\u003cbr\u003eBird-Witted\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Brittania\u003cbr\u003eSpenser's Ireland\u003cbr\u003eFour Quartz Crystal Clocks\u003cbr\u003eThe Pangolin\u003cbr\u003eThe Paper Nautilus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNevertheless (1944)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNevertheless\u003cbr\u003eThe Wood-Weasel\u003cbr\u003eElephants\u003cbr\u003eA Carriage from Sweden\u003cbr\u003eThe Mind Is an Enchanting Thing\u003cbr\u003eIn Distrust of Merits\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCollected Later (1951)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Face\u003cbr\u003eBy Disposition of Angels\u003cbr\u003eThe Icosasphere\u003cbr\u003eHis Shield\u003cbr\u003e\"Keeping Their World Large\"\u003cbr\u003eEfforts of Affection\u003cbr\u003eVoracities and Verities Sometimes Are Interacting\u003cbr\u003ePropriety\u003cbr\u003eArmor's Undermining Modesty\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. LATER POEMS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLike a Bulwark (1956)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike a Bulwark\u003cbr\u003eApparition of Splendor\u003cbr\u003eThen the Ermine\u003cbr\u003eTom Fool at Jamaica\u003cbr\u003eThe Web One Weaves of Italy\u003cbr\u003eThe Staff of Aesculapius\u003cbr\u003eThe Sycamore\u003cbr\u003eRosemary\u003cbr\u003eStyle\u003cbr\u003eLogic and \"The Magic Flute\"\u003cbr\u003eBlessed Is the Man\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eO To Be a Dragon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO to Be a Dragon\u003cbr\u003eI May, I Might, I Must\u003cbr\u003eTo a Chameleon\u003cbr\u003eA Jelly-Fish\u003cbr\u003eValues in Use\u003cbr\u003eHometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese\u003cbr\u003eEnough: Jamestown, 1607-1957\u003cbr\u003eMelchior Vulpius\u003cbr\u003eNo Better Than a \"Withered Daffodil\"\u003cbr\u003eIn the Public Garden\u003cbr\u003eThe Arctic Ox (or Goat)\u003cbr\u003eSaint Nicholas\u003cbr\u003eFor February 14th\u003cbr\u003eCombat Cultural\u003cbr\u003eLeonardo da Vinci's\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTell Me, Tell Me (1966)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGranite and Steel\u003cbr\u003eIn Lieu of the Lyre\u003cbr\u003eThe Mind, Intractable Thing\u003cbr\u003eDream\u003cbr\u003eOld Amusement Park\u003cbr\u003eAn Expedient - Leonardo da Vinci's - and a Query\u003cbr\u003eW. S. Landor\u003cbr\u003eTo a Giraffe\u003cbr\u003eCharity Overcoming Envy\u003cbr\u003eBlue Bug\u003cbr\u003eArthur Mitchell\u003cbr\u003eBaseball and Writing\u003cbr\u003eTo Victor Hugo of My Crow Pluto\u003cbr\u003eRescue with Yul Brynner\u003cbr\u003eCarnegie Hall: Rescued\u003cbr\u003eTell Me, Tell Me\u003cbr\u003eSaint Valentine\u003cbr\u003eSun\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHitherto Uncollected\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Avec Ardeur\"\u003cbr\u003eLove in America -\u003cbr\u003eTippoo's Tiger\u003cbr\u003eThe Camperdown Elm\u003cbr\u003eMercifully\u003cbr\u003e\"Reminiscent of a Wave at the Curl\"\u003cbr\u003eEnough: 1969\u003cbr\u003eThe Magician's Retreat\u003cbr\u003ePrevalent at One Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelections from\u003c\/i\u003e The Fables of La Fontaine (1954)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003eA Note on the Notes\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Titles and Opening Lines\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (alternate volume)\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the National Book Award (alternate volume)\u003c\/b\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":46304465813733,"sku":"NP9780140188516","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140188516.jpg?v=1767724004","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/complete-poems-isbn-9780140188516","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}