The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Marianne Moore
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays, Biography, Journalism
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Spiritual life or spirituality, Dancing or dancers, Popular culture
Form and Content
In 1908, as a junior at Bryn Mawr College, then one of the most progressive women’s colleges in the United States, Marianne Moore published a story in the student literary magazine in which she expressed one of the most fundamental contradictions operating in the life of an artist obsessed with a task. “There are times,” she wrote, “when I should give anything on earth to have writing a matter of indifference to me.” Thus at the age of nineteen she acknowledged with characteristic ardor and reluctance the major motivating force of her life. While...
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