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education, and the ideology of separate spheres came together in a kind of perfect storm that created a climate for cultural change". Moore was involved in a "suffrage society", a chapter of the National College Equal Suffrage League, and she was present at most of their events. Notably, Moore wrote in her personal letters to her family that she attended lectures at Bryn Mawr by the well-known feminist
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Carlisle newspaper", which at the time appeared to be authored anonymously. Dr. Mary Chapman (University of British Columbia) argues that Moore was the writer of suffragist writings of the time in Carlisle news publications and that could be analyzed by examining her specific writing style alongside suffragist prose and poetry that were published in the
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Moore was never as public about her involvement in the suffrage movement after that parade in 1913, because afterward she began participating anonymously, mostly through writing, using a pseudonym. During her stay in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, she admitted years later, she "wrote suffrage pieces for the
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as "intensifying her interest in rhythm and encouraging her rhythmic eccentricities". In response to a biographical sketch in 1935, Moore indicated "a liking for unaccented rhyme, the movement of the poem musically is more important than the conventional look of lines upon the page, and the stanza as
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Like her mother and her brother, Moore remained a devoted Presbyterian, strongly influenced by her grandfather, approaching her Christian faith as a lesson in strength vindicated through trials and temptations; her poems often deal with the themes of strength and adversity. She thought "it was not
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Moore's combined major in history, politics, and economics and the suffrage involvement of professors and other students at Bryn Mawr exposed her to the women's suffrage movement, especially because it was a "unique period in the history of women's college, as the values of progressivism, women's
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where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor. Her father, John Milton Moore, a mechanical engineer and inventor, suffered a psychotic episode, as a consequence of which her parents separated before she was born; Moore never met him. She and her elder brother, John Warner
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letter. Moore established herself on the surface as a modernist poet, and the common practice within the modernist circle of poets was to not engage with the politics of the time; but her writings displayed a "sophisticated political subtext".
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of 1969, she also commented in regard to her poetic form, that "in anything I have written, there have been lines in which the chief interest is borrowed, and I have not yet been able to outgrow this hybrid method of composition".
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and other traditional poetic devices are not as important as delight in language and precise, heartfelt expression. Moore's meter was radically separate from the English tradition; writing her syllabic poems after the advent of
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She moved to 35 West Ninth Street in Manhattan in 1965. After she moved back to Greenwich Village, she was widely recognized around town for her tricorn hat and black cape. She liked athletics and was a great admirer of
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is signed "Miss M.M.", which scholars believe could stand for Marianne Moore because "the absence of any other documented unmarried female suffragists in the Carlisle area with the initials M.M. make it likely that the
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magazine, a literary and cultural journal. This position in the literary and arts community extended her influence as an arbiter of modernist taste; much later, she encouraged promising young poets, including
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et al. (New York: Knopf, 1997), p. 164. In a letter to Bryher, Moore notes, "I wouldn't have the poems appear now if I could help it and would not have some of them ever appear and would make certain
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Moore, were reared by their mother, Mary Warner Moore. The family wrote voluminous letters to one another throughout their lives, often addressing each other by playful nicknames based on characters from
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reader who coyly constructs a letter to the editor almost entirely from quotation is Marianne Moore". Moore's poem "Silence" (1924) also resembles the writing style that was seen in the
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formed the Equality League of Self Supporting Women, which started the practice of suffrage parades; and soon (in 1910) women in the state of Washington were granted the right to vote.
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Moore visited New York City in 1909 with another Bryn Mawr student, where she heard a lecture by the Colorado suffragist Judge Ben Lindsey, went to a suffrage mass meeting, and saw
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Moore was involved in the American suffrage movement starting in her university years at Bryn Mawr, from 1905 to 1909. During this time in the American suffrage movement,
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became available in 2002. Since that time, there has been no critical consensus about which versions are authoritative. As Moore wrote, as a one-line epigraph to
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Moore suffered a series of strokes in her last years. She died in 1972, and her ashes were interred with those of her mother at the family's burial plot at the
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in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. By the time of her death, she had received many honorary degrees and virtually every honor available to an American poet. The
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in 1928 and 1932. She was a lifelong ally and friend of the American poet Wallace Stevens, as demonstrated in her review of Stevens's first collection,
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Though not as widely set to music as the work of other poets, there have been musical adaptations by several American composers, including pieces by
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exhibit Moore's characteristic reliance on quotation." Additionally, a letter appealing for the women's suffrage movement in the
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in 1905. She was graduated four years later with an A.B., having majored in history, economics, and political science. The poet
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Moore's novel and an unfinished memoir have not been published. In her will, she established a fund for the support of the
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poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for its formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit. In
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magazines. Moore became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1955. She was elected a Fellow of the
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for outstanding contributions to American culture. Moore continued to publish poems in various magazines, including,
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was among her classmates during their freshman year. At Bryn Mawr, Moore started writing short stories and poems for
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Moore corresponded with Ezra Pound from 1918 onward and visited him regularly during his incarceration at
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of April 13, 1957, titled "Correspondence with David Wallace". It is anthologized in Mordechai Richler's
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Moore never married. Her living room has been preserved in its original layout in the collections of the
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area until she was six. After her grandfather died in 1894, the three stayed with relatives near
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http://brooklynbased.com/blog/2012/10/16/brooklyn-history-the-singularly-curious-weeping-elm/%7C
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The Camperdown elm in Prospect Park, which benefits from a fund established in Moore's will
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In 1955, Moore was invited informally by David Wallace, manager of marketing research for
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magazine. The innovative poems she was writing at that time received high praise from
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in Philadelphia. Her entire library, knick-knacks (including a baseball signed by
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Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters.
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however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry
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school-books": all these phenomena are important. One must make a distinction
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she wrote the liner notes. She became known as a baseball fan, first of the
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Letter to Miss Gray (November 5, 1935), reproduced in Molesworth, Charles,
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ceased publication in 1929, she moved to 260 Cumberland Street in the
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Making Noise, Making News, Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism
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Her experience was memorably recounted in her epistolic article for
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Library
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of 1967. Facsimile editions of the theretofore out-of-print 1924
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printed a full-page obituary. In 1996, she was inducted into the
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in 1915: "Many of the prosuffrage articles that appeared in the
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Glenway Wescott and Monroe Wheeler Collection of Marianne Moore
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Degrees of Freedom American Women Poets and the Women's College
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possible to live without religious faith". Moore lived in the
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In 1933, Moore was awarded the Helen Haire Levinson Prize by
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the unit of composition rather than the line". Later in her
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Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore
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Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore
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Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Adams County, Pennsylvania)
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Moore's first professionally published poems appeared in
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audio, video and full transcripts from Open Yale Courses
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924
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Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907–1924
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Wilson - Marianne Moore collection 1284:The Imagist Poem: Modern Poetry in Miniature 1217:. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2014. 1165: 1163: 795:National American Woman Suffrage Association 2087: 2031:Special Collections, University of Delaware 1831: 1424: 1120:"Nomination archive – Marianne Craig Moore" 2400: 2386: 2151: 2137: 1398: 540:At the age of 81, Moore received the 1968 342:artists, especially those associated with 85: 2650:Carlisle Indian Industrial School faculty 2090:"Marianne Moore, The Art of Poetry No. 4" 1209: 1207: 1160: 481:in 1962 and in 1967 she was awarded The 793:had just taken over as president of the 776: 657: 432: 326:In 1916, Moore moved with her mother to 58:of all important aspects of the article. 19:For the American aquatic biologist, see 1900: 1488:. stlouiswalkoffame.org. Archived from 1340:. 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Marianne V. Moore

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Photograph by George Platt Lynes (1935)
George Platt Lynes
Kirkwood, Missouri
Bryn Mawr College
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Modernism
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Kirkwood, Missouri
Presbyterian church
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