This book traces the development of Marianne Moore's poetry throughout her sixty-year career as one of America's finest poets. Margaret Holley examines changes in Moore's approach to moral and artistic values, and discusses how language and form were distinctive in each of the poet's major phases. The study shows how the solitary, satirical voice of Moore's early verses matured into the wise observer of the later, major poems. Holley demonstrates how the virtuoso work of the middle years, infused with compassion and a sense of community, relaxed into the playful meditations of Moore's old age, when fame had brought her wide readership and acclaim. In exploring how shifts in Moore's poetic voice reflected important stages of her overall poetic growth, Holley provides detailed readings of the poems. The poetic strategies examined include: Moore's deployment of emblems and mottoes, her blend of overt and covert quotation, changes in her metaphoric language, her use of model stanzas in syllabic verse, her preferences for rhyme and closure, and her distinct spatial imagination.

The Poetry of Marianne Moore: A Study in Voice and Value (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 25)

Literature & Fiction

Holley, Margaret

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

<p>This book traces the development of Marianne Moore's poetry throughout her sixty-year career as one of America's finest poets. Margaret Holley examines changes in Moore's approach to moral and artistic values, and discusses how language and form were distinctive in each of the poet's major phases. The study shows how the solitary, satirical voice of Moore's early verses matured into the wise observer of the later, major poems. Holley demonstrates how the virtuoso work of the middle years, infused with compassion and a sense of community, relaxed into the playful meditations of Moore's old age, when fame had brought her wide readership and acclaim. In exploring how shifts in Moore's poetic voice reflected important stages of her overall poetic growth, Holley provides detailed readings of the poems. The poetic strategies examined include: Moore's deployment of emblems and mottoes, her blend of overt and covert quotation, changes in her metaphoric language, her use of model stanzas in syllabic verse, her preferences for rhyme and closure, and her distinct spatial imagination.</p>

<p>Poetry. Margaret Holley, in this collection of intense and delicate poems, invites us into good company -- here are Brahms, Rilke, Rmui, and Galileo; here also is the physical world with its own sometimes ferocious, sometimes tender artistry; here are family and friends; and here is the poet herself, who, in this intelligent and magical book, is the best company of all. Holley deserves a wider audience than she has had so far; KORE IN BLOOM should brgin her many new readers. -- Mary Oliver. One of the finest books of poetry I have read in years. -- Richard Wilbur.</p>

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Copper Beech Press

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