Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972

Poet, acting editor of The Dial magazine, 1925-1929. Born Marianne Craig Moore.

Marianne Moore was an American poet.

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Poet, editor of The Dial magazine, 1925-1929. Born Marianne Craig Moore.

Marianne Moore was an American author, noted for her widely respected poetry. Raised in Pennsylvania, she graduated from Bryn Mawr and began writing poetry in earnest. She moved to New York, where she lived the rest of her life, and became editor of The Dial from 1925 through 1929. She is remembered as one of the finest poets of the 20th century, and won the Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen Prize, and the National Book Award for her 1952 book, Collected Poems. She also published prose on a variety of subjects.

American poet.

Marianne Craig Moore was a poet, and editor of THE DIAL, 1924-1929.

American poet Marianne Moore was born in St. Louis, and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1909. She lived mostly in New York City, working first as a librarian and later, from 1925 until 1929, as editor of the literary and cultural journal THE DIAL. Her poetry is witty, intellectual, and often satirical. Volumes of her verse include POEMS (1921), OBSERVATIONS (1924), WHAT ARE YEARS? (1941), COLLECTED POEMS (1951, Pulitzer Prize), O TO BE A DRAGON (1959), and COMPLETE POEMS (1967). Among her other works are a translation of THE FABLES OF LA FONTAINE (1954). She attended boxing matches, baseball games, and other public events, dressed in what became her signature garb, a tricorn hat and a black cape. Not long after throwing the first pitch for the 1968 season in Yankee Stadium, Moore suffered the first of a series of strokes. She died in 1972.

Marianne Craige Moore, American Poet, was born November 15, 1887 in Missouri and died February 5, 1972 in Brooklyn, NY. Miss Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in 1909. She taught school at the United States Indian School in Carlisle, Pa., was a secretary to a girls school, 1921-1925 was an assistant librarian at the Hudson Park Branch of the New York Public Library, and from 1926-1929 edited the literary magazine "The Dial". Miss Moore was the recipient of many awards including the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize. She was also known as a fiery rooster for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team earning the title poet laureate of baseball.

Marianne Craig Moore, 1887-1972, poet, attended the Metzger Institute in Carlisle, Pa and Bryn Mawr. She taught at the Carlisle Indian school, 1911 - 1915. Her published works include Poems (1921), Observations (1924), The Pangolin and Other Verse (1936), A Marianne Moore Reader (1961) and The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (1967).

Marianne Moore, a poet, critic, and translator, was born Marianne Craig Moore in Kirkland, Missouri, the daughter of John Milton Moore, a construction engineer and inventor, and Mary Warner. Moore had an older brother, John Warner Moore. She never met her father; before her birth his invention of a smokeless furnace failed, and he had a nervous and mental breakdown and was hospitalized in Massachusetts. Moore's mother became a housekeeper for John Riddle Warner, her father, an affectionate, well-read Presbyterian pastor in Kirkwood, until his death in 1894. Moore's mother, always overly protective, moved with her children briefly to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where Moore attended the Metzger Institute (now part of Dickinson College) through high school. In 1905 she entered Bryn Mawr College, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; published nine poems, including "A Jelly-Fish," in its literary magazines Tipyn O'Bob and the Lantern; and majored in history, law, and politics, graduating with a B.A. in 1909. Much--perhaps too much--has been made of Moore's later casual assertion that laboratory studies in biology and histology caused her to consider studying medicine; at any rate, one result of such work was her love of intricately shaped animals and also a lifelong respect for precision in description. She also expressed a desire to become a painter. After taking secretarial courses at Carlisle Commercial College (1910-1911), she taught bookkeeping, stenography, and typing and commercial English and law at the U.S. Industrial Indian School at Carlisle with admirable success until 1915. One of her students was Jim Thorpe, the famous Native American athlete.Moore has proved to be an engaging puzzle, not only to critics of her time but to later ones as well. It is seen that her themes broadened to a degree as she matured. In early works she emphasized a need for discipline and heroic behavior. Later she stressed the need for spiritual grace and love. To survive, she hinted, one must be alert, disciplined, and careful. Gradually she moved from scrutinizing one object to comparing several objects. She delighted in whimsically describing characteristics of animals and athletes, seeing both organisms as subjects and exemplars of art. Never dogmatic in propounding her morality, she often distanced herself and remained furtive by attributing declarative dicta to others and by commenting on quotations and even photographs expressing the point of view of others. For these reasons, critics have not yet reached a consensus--is she modern or anachronistic, imagistic or objectivistic? Regardless, Moore tremendously relished her quietly intense, largely bookish, often convivial life, made memorable to a host of friends by her rapid-fire talk. She was superb at her chosen craft. Her expression is notable for deftness and sharpness of detail, linguistic experimentation, and integration of fresh observation and obscure reading. She teases the reader into looking at reality with keener vision, as though, like her, seemingly for the very first time; challenges the reader to accept the relationship of big and little, animate and inanimate, ideal and object; and invites the reader to note, and practice, the power of words. To those who complained that her poetry often seemed obscure, she once replied that something that was work to write ought to be work to read. Her life displayed and her writings expressed the virtues of courage, loyalty, patience, modesty, spontaneity, and steadfastness. American National Biography Online. (http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-01159.html?a=1&f=moore,%20marianne&ia=-at&ib=-bib&d=10&ss=0&q=1) Retrieved 6/11/2009.

American poet, critic and translator.

American author.

Marianne Moore, poet and editor of The Dial (1925-1929), was a long-time friend of Monroe Wheeler and Glenway Wescott, whom she met in the early 1920s while living in New York City.

Marianne Moore was an American poet, playwright, literary critic, essayist, translator, and childrens' book author.

Poet Marianne Moore was born November 15, 1887, near St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1909 with a B.A. in Biology. She went on to study and later teach at Carlisle Commercial College. In 1918 Moore and her mother moved to New York City, and in 1921 Moore became an assistant in the New York Public Library. Moore began to meet with other poets such as William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, and to contribute to the Dial, a prestigious literary magazine. She was acting editor of the Dial from 1925 to 1929. Her first book, Poems, was published in 1921 without her knowledge by a friend, H.D. Moore went on to publish other books, including Observations (1924), What Are Years? (1941), Collected Poems (1951; Pulitzer Prize), O to Be a Dragon (1959), and Complete Poems (1967). Moore was widely recognized for her work and honored with the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Jack W.C. Hagstrom was born December 2, 1933 in Rockford, Illinois. After receiving his undergraduate education at Amherst, Hagstrom attended Cornell University Medical College, from which he received a master's degree in 1959. Hagstrom remained at Cornell after graduation and eventually became Instructor of Pathology at Cornell University Medical College. He retained ties with Amherst College after graduation. His avocation of book and poetry collecting developed into a close and ongoing relationship with the Amherst College Library. Hagstrom is a collector of poetry by Robert Frost, whom Hagstrom met at Amherst College as a student. Hagstrom collected over 250 volumes of Frost's work and helped secure tape recordings of Frost's lectures for permanent placement in the Amherst College library. Hagstrom's interest in poetry also led him to develop a friendship with another poet, Marianne Moore. Their correspondence comprises the contents of this collection.

Marianne Moore, poet and editor of The Dial.

Glenway Wescott, 1901-1987, novelist.

Monroe Wheeler, 1899-1988, publisher and director of exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art.

Marianne Moore, poet and editor of The Dial.

Glenway Wescott, 1901-1987, novelist.

Monroe Wheeler, 1899-1988, publisher and director of exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art.

American poet, born St. Louis, Missouri. Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College and from 1911 to 1915 taught at the Carlisle (Pennsylvania) Indian School. She moved to New York City in 1918 and worked at the New York Public Library while meeting other poets and contributing to The Dial. She was acting editor of The Dial from 1925 to 1929. Her work was also published in the English magazine The Egoist along with that of other members of the Imagist movement. English poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) published Moore's first book of poems without her knowledge in 1921.

She went on to publish substantially in prose and verse; the Complete poems appeared in 1967. Moore was recipient of the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Marianne Craig Moore was an award-winning modernist poet, writer, and critic known for her precise use of words, unusual style, and speech-like poetic rhythm. Marianne was born in Kirkwood, Missouri on November 15, 1887 to Mary Warner Moore and John Milton Moore. Because Moore’s father suffered a mental breakdown prior to her birth, Marianne never knew him. She grew up in the house of her grandfather, John R. Warner, a Presbyterian minister.

After the death of Reverend Moore in 1894, Mary moved Marianne and her older brother, John, to Allegheny City, Pennsylvania and then to Carlisle, Pennsylvania to be closer to other relatives. Mary, John, and Marianne were extremely close and filled much of their spare time with reading. Mary taught English at the Metzger Institute in Carlisle, where Marianne received her initial education. A single mother, Mary worked so that John could attend college at Yale and Marianne could go to Bryn Mawr.

In 1904 and 1905, Marianne took entrance examinations in preparation for attending Bryn Mawr. She moved into her dormitory in the fall of 1905. Although she had wanted to be an English major, her professors refused to let her, saying that her writing was too obscure and that she consistently violated rules of grammar and language-two qualities that would be hallmarks of her modernist poetry. Despite her disappointment, Marianne continued to read avidly and wrote during her college years. She published short stories and poetry in Bryn Mawr’s Tipyn o’Bob and Lantern. Marianne also had a keen interest in biology but was discouraged from majoring in the subject since her mother thought that biology was no profession for a lady. Animals and nature, however, were never far from her mind or her poetry. In the end, Marianne graduated in the Class of 1909 with a B.A. in history, economics, and politics.

After graduation, Marianne and her mother took a trip abroad. Her experiences overseas perceptibly influenced her poetry. Upon returning to the United States, Marianne attempted to have her poetry published. At the same time, she sought a job working for publishers or magazines. Failing on both fronts, she attended the Carlisle Commercial College to learn secretarial skills to become more qualified for work. Marianne got her first position working for Melvil Dewey as his secretary at the Lake Placid Club. She next worked as a teacher at the United States Indian School in Carlisle. While Marianne was teaching, she managed to find time to write. She was professionally published, at last, in 1915.

Marianne and her mother moved to New York City in 1918. With her mother always at her side, she churned out poetry, read voraciously, and interacted with other modernist poets. In 1920, Marianne was published ever more frequently in The Dial, a modernist magazine. Purchased by Scofield Thayer and J. Sibley Watson, Jr. in 1919, The Dial became a popular outlet for modernist thought, literature, and art. The art of Pablo Picasso, Renoir, Vincent Van Gogh, and Edvard Munch, among others, and the poetry of E.E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and W.B. Yeats, among others, were often featured in the magazine. In 1925, Thayer finally got Moore to agree to become acting editor of The Dial. Soon, she permanently replaced him. Moore was editor until 1929 when the magazine ceased publication. Until her death, Marianne would maintain a close friendship with J. Sibley Watson, Jr. and his wife Hildegarde.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Marianne was an active freelance writer and published books of her poetry. In 1947 she was devastated by the loss of her mother. The 1950s and 1960s brought Moore more fame and recognition. Her Collected Poems, published in 1951, won her the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. She was also the recipient of The National Medal for Literature, France’s Croix de Chevalier, and sixteen honorary degrees. Until the onset of her final illness in 1969, Moore traveled, participated in numerous speaking engagements, and graciously offered advice to young writers. She died on February 5, 1972. In addition to being remembered as a groundbreaking poet, Marianne Moore is remembered for her captivating conversations, iconic tricorn cap, advocacy for the conservation of Prospect Park, and love for baseball and Brooklyn.

Bibliography Willis, Patricia C. 1987. Marianne Moore: Vision into Verse. Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum and Library.