The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore - Hardcover

Moore, Marianne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679439099 ISBN 13: 9780679439097

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Moore Marianne

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Reseña del editor:

Letters to Moore's family, friends, and fellow writers depict her views on life and poetry

Nota de la solapa:

duction, Bonnie Costello writes:

On July 9, 1959, T. S. Eliot wrote to Marianne Moore: "One of the books which obviously must in the fullness of time be published . . . will be the Letters of Marianne Moore."  We are pleased to fulfill his prediction. Marianne Moore's correspondence makes up the largest and most broadly significant collection of any modern poet. It documents the first two-thirds of this century, reflecting shifts from Victorian to modernist culture, the experience of the two world wars, the Depression and postwar prosperity, and the changing face of the arts in America and Europe. Moore wrote letters daily for most of her life--long, intense letters to friends and family; shorter, but always distinctive letters to an ever-widening circle of acquaintances and fans. At the height of her celebrity, she would occasionally write as many as fifty letters a day. Both Moore and her correspondents appreciated the value of their exchange, so that an extraordinar

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679439099
• ISBN 13: 9780679439097
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 597