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THE BOOK WAS VERY DESCRIPTIVE OF MARIANNES LIFE
I THOUGHT THAT THE BOOK WAS GOOD IN THE SCENCE THAT IT WENT THROUGH AND EXPLAINED HER LIFE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.THE BOOK TOLD THE HARD THINGS THAT SHE OVER CAME IN HER LIFE.I WOULD RECOMEND THIS BOOK TO YOU IF YOUWANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ONE OF THIS COUNTRY GREATEST POETS....ERICCOUGHLIN 9-27-99 ... Read more

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This book explores the relationships between four modernist poets and the museums that helped shape their writing. During the early twentieth century, museums were trying to reach a wider audience and used displayed objects to teach that audience about art, culture, and ecology. Writers such as Yeats, Pound, Moore, and Stein borrowed strategies and techniques from museums in order to create literary modernism. Poetry in the Museums of Modernism places these writers' poetry and prose within the context of specific gallery spaces, curatorial practices, displayed objects, and exhibition objectives of the museums that inspired them, exposing the ways in which literary modernism is linked to museums.
Although critics have attested to the importance of the visual arts to literary modernists and have begun to explore the relationships between literary production and social institutions, before now no one has examined the particular institutions in which modernist poets found the artworks, specimens, and other artifacts that inspired their literary innovations. Catherine Paul's book offers the reader a fresh encounter with modernism that will interest literary and art historians, literary theorists, critics, and scholars in cultural studies and museum studies.
Catherine Paul is Associate Professor of English, Clemson University.
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More than 200 inspiring poems offer a superb, inexpensive introduction to the women poets of America, from the colonial-era works of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley to the modern poetry of Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath. Other authors include Emily Dickinson, Hilda Doolittle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Emma Lazarus, and many more.
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For the Sentimentalists
I bought this Dover Thrift knowing that I would at least like a few of the poems, and even one great poem would be worth a measly dollar.These are poems that speak of the greatness of America, or the treachery of slavery, or other such things that bring tears to your eyes if you don't fall asleep before its over.Now don't get me wrong, every poem in this book marks a great step for women in poetry, and all of the poems are good.For those who like surrealism and dreamlike imagerythough (like me), this book is more worth buying for the poems such as:"Daddy" (S. Plath's jerking rendering of the thoughts of a half-Jew, half-German woman), "Bluebeard's Closet" (R. Cooke's portrayal of the horrors of the room filled with dead wives), and a few other such of the like.The title, "Great Poems by American Women" should read "Great First Poems by American Women".The great poems of more recent poets were awfully ignored in the making of this mediorce (but hey, not a bad trade for the price) anthology. ... Read more

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This edition of the poems Marianne Moore published between 1932 to 1936 is an argument for the uniqueness of her achievement during these years, and the importance of reading her poetry from those years in its earliest published form. In particular it advocates for the hitherto-overlooked importance of Marianne Moore's 1936 The Pangolin and Other Verse. This limited-edition volume, containing only five poems, represents the culmination of the work she produced in the four years preceding its publication, and as such marks the high-water mark of Moore's entire poetic career. ... Read more