òMoore, Marianne Craig1887╨1972poetBorn on November 15, 1887, in St. Louis, Marianne Moore grew up there and from about the age of seven in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1909 and then returned to Carlisle, where she attended Carlisle Commercial College for a year and then for four years taught in the Carlisle Indian School. Her first published poems appeared in 1915, when T. S. Eliot printed some in The Egoist in London and then Harriet Monroe printed more in Poetry. In 1916 she moved with her mother to Chatham, New Jersey, and two years later they settled in Greenwich Village in New York City. While teaching in a private school and then working as an assistant librarian in the New York Public Library in 1921╨1925, she established a place for herself in the literary life of Greenwich Village. A collection of her poems was edited by Hilda Doolittle and Winifred Ellerman and published without her knowledge in London in 1921 as Poems. In 1924 a revised version of the book was published in the United States as Observations, which was given a Dial award. From 1925 to its demise in 1929 Marianne Moore was acting editor of the Dial. In the latter year she moved to Brooklyn. Moore╒s verse and literary criticism appeared in many journals and periodicals in England and the United States. Over the next decades she produced Selected Poems, 1935, The Pangolin and Other Verse, 1936, What Are Years, 1941, Nevertheless, 1944, and her Collected Poems, 1951, which won a Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize, and a National Book Award. Her verse was characterized by highly individual metrical forms, by wit and irony, deep moral concern, and carefully considered feeling. She often employed imagery from the natural world, but her concerns never strayed far from the human. The personal interests that formed her subjects ranged from baseball to art glass; titles of some of her best known pieces included ╥To a Steam Roller,╙ ╥Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese╙ (on the Brooklyn Dodgers), ╥The Labors of Hercules,╙ ╥When I Buy Pictures,╙ ╥The Monkeys,╙ ╥Carnegie Hall: Rescued,╙ ╥In Distrust of Merits,╙ and ╥Tom Fool at Jamaica.╙ Her prosody showed high craftsmanship, discipline, and precision. Among her other writings were a translation, The Fables of La Fontaine, 1954, Predilections, a collection of essays on her favorite authors, 1955, and Idiosyncrasy and Technique, 1958. Other books of verse included Like a Bulwark, 1956, O To Be A Dragon, 1959, The Arctic Ox, 1964, and Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite Steel and Other Topics, 1966. Her Complete Poems, appeared in 1967. Moore died at her New York City home on February 5, 1972. ╬styl ` 0 ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ & !I ║ !I ─ !I ╪ !I ▐ µ !I ≈ !I ² !I ä 5¬ à !I x !I ▐ ç !I ╫ !I ▄ !I * !I 6 !I ƒ !I ú !I ╥ 5¬ ╙ !I h !I v !I ~ !I Ü !I ó !I ░ !I ╖ !I ─ !I ╘ !I π !I
