... knowledge of their own past. Celena Kusch s Antifascist, Anti-imperialist, Anti-war: The Political Alter-Egos of Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore in 1930s Britain ( pp. 273 94) argues that in their contributions to Life and Letters Today during the 1930s Moore and Bishop conduct a significant...

... partly through her correspondence with Marianne Moore. She also argues that H.D.’s childhood memories of landscapes deeply influenced her sense of national identity and her writing. Debo draws on letters, prose fiction, scrapbook photographs, and H.D.’s poetry to indicate the depth of impact...

... and Wallace Stevens, have accounted for approximately (allowing for multiple-author studies) three books per year; Robert Frost was the subject of two books per year, and Marianne Moore, H.D., and W. H. Auden one book. This year is unusual because there is no book from an American publisher exclusively...

... Poetry (Bloomsbury), a collection of essays featuring chapters on E. E. Cummings, Lorine Niedecker, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop, among others. The theories fall into three main categories: the superiority theory, the incon- gruity theory, and Freudian. Trousdale further observes that Sigmund...

...E. P. Walkiewicz Duke University Press 2004 17 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s E. P. Walkiewicz Editions stand out prominently this year—editions of poetry, editions of prose, editions of letters, including an exemplary edition of Marianne Moore’s early poetry and an innovative...

... Moore and Ste- vens also addressed scientific ideas in their poems. Middleton focuses on Olson and Rukeyser because these poets sought a cultural prestige and epistemic authority for poetry, conceiving it as a legitimate “mode of inquiry.” They wanted poetry to have a scientific outlook, an idea...

... amplified the use of still life, one wonders why these poets are singled out, when other clearly significant figures, including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and Robert Frost, produced work that also fits her definition. (Costello specifically rules out the Objectivist poets...

... these perceptions. viii  Marianne Moore Victoria Bazin’s Marianne Moore and the Cultures of Modernity (Ashgate) introduces familiar suspects when discussing the cultures of modernity: 388 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s urban life dominates civilization; technology pervades our...

... Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schüler (Michigan), does so in the international register. American Literary Scholarship (2005) doi 10.1215/00659142-2006-014 © 2007 by Duke University Press 370 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s i  General Studies Of the total...

... engagement with the sonnet. iv  Marianne Moore Does design govern a thing so large as a Companion to Modernist Poetry? And if so, is Frost left out of the new edition by design? Perhaps not, but the volume’s two key essays on American modernist poetry divide the terrain in such a way that Frost...

.... “Narrative without progress,” she writes, “contradicts the sense of telos in filmic montage.” Linda Kinnahan (“Economics and Gender in Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, and Marianne Moore,” pp. 143–72) distinguishes the emergent consumer economy of the early 20th century with a provision-based economy to show...

..., intellectual response we need to prevent our ‘‘visceral responses’’ from becoming ‘‘self-indulgent, deriva- tive, or even dishonest vi Marianne Moore a. Editions Grace Shulman has edited and introduces The Poems of Marianne Moore (Viking), a chronological presentation of Moore’s...

... was attacked by 370 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s many who did not understand what he was doing, including Marianne Moore and Kay Boyle. Eliot was aloof, but Williams, Mariani thinks, was competitive. The worst betrayals were by those Crane thought his best supporters: Tate...

...- ianne Moore lauded Albert Einstein, the former depicting him as a modern Prometheus, the latter viewing him as ‘ ‘the embodiment of scientiŽc open-mindedness In The Bridge Hart Crane drew distinctions between diVerent applications of scientiŽc knowledge, while William...

... standing and influence. g. Moore, Pound, and Race In late 1918, after reading Marianne Moore s poem Black Earth, with its first-person lines Black | but beautiful, my back | is full of the history of power, Pound wrote Moore to inquire, Are you a jet black Ethiopian Othello-hued? When she answered...

..., and Marianne Moore) to the failure and subsequent renewal of the mod- ernist project (Williams, George Oppen, and Langston Hughes), and concludes with an ultimate “return” to rhetoric (Wallace Stevens and W. H. Auden). With this organizational structure, the volume progresses smoothly from its...

.... And that is quite an achievement. Rayburn Moore’s ‘‘Julian Hawthorne and Fortune’s Fool ’’ (NHR 29, ii: 76–83) nicely complements Wineapple by providing further evidence of Julian Hawthorne’s often suspect relationship with the truth. Drawing upon unpublished letters in the British Library’s Macmillan...

... suggest. Margaret B. Moore’s ‘‘Nathaniel Hawthorne and ‘Old John Brown’ ’’ (NHR 26, i: 25– 32) summarizes events prior to John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, to provide a context for Hawthorne’s 1862 essay ‘‘Chiefly about War Matters’’ and its provocative remarks about John Brown...

... and a meditation on the freedom to indulge in ecstatic intoxication in Dickinson s verse. In Q.E.D.: What Emily Dickinson Did with Her Mathematics Books (EDJ 27, i: 45 73) Thomas Moore, a retired professor of mathematics, argues that Dickinson read her mathematics textbooks as passionately as she read any other...

...- nently in two new reference titles. Hispanic Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors, 2nd ed., ed. Jerry Moore et al. (Gale), reprints selected sketches of several hundred authors, about 70 of them Hispanic writers in the United States; it supplements an earlier edition...