Fun Facts Friday: Marianne Moore

November 15, 2024

Marianne Moore (15 November, 1887 – 5 February, 1972) was an American poet, editor, critic and translator. She was nominated for the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Fun Facts about Marianne Moore:

Fun Facts Friday: Marianne Moore
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Early Life and Family:

  1. Marianne Craig Moore was born in Kirkwood, MI, in a house next to a Presbyterian church belonging to her grandfather who was also the pastor.
  2. Her father, John Milton Moore, was an inventor and engineer. Sadly, he suffered from mental illness and as a result he was out of her life before she was even born. She never met him.
  3. Marianne Moore and her brother, John Warner Moore, were raised by their mother, Mary Warner Moore. The family kept in close contact throughout their lives by writing long letters in their own private language. They used nicknames from The Wind in the Willows.
  4. Marianne Moore was influenced by her grandfather and became a devout Presbyterian for the rest of her life. She approached her faith through strength and adversity and her poems reflect that.
  5. After Pastor Moore passed away, the family moved to Pennsylvania, settling in Carlisle where their mother got a job as an English teacher.

    Academic Pursuits and Literary Beginnings:

  6. By 1909, Marianne Moore graduated with degrees in history, economics, and political science from Bryn Mawr College in PA. Bryn Mawr is one of the historical women’s higher education institutions known as “Seven Sister Colleges”. This where she first started writing modern poetry.
  7. Moore first poems professionally published poems were The Egoist and Poetry, in 1915.

    A Circle of Literary Giants

  8. Marianne Moore and her mother found themselves in New York City where she started to associate with artists and luminaries of American poetry. She became known in their circles and was highly praised by the likes Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and more.
  9. Moore’s first book, Poems, was published in 1921 without her permission. Her second book, 1924’s Observations, won the Dial Award. The Dial was a literary and cultural journal which she edited from 1925 to 1929.

    A Distinguished Career:

  10. Over the years Marianne Moore has won many notable awards including the Helen Haire Levinson Prize by Poetry magazine, National Medal for Literature (1968), and The Edward MacDowell Medal as well as the National Book Award,[12] the Pulitzer Prize, and the Bollingen Prize for her book Collected Poems.

Books by Marianne Moore*

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Sources:

Marianne Moore | Wikipedia

Marianne Moore: 1887—1972 | Poetry Foundation

Marianne Moore: 1887 – 1972 | poets.org

Marianne Moore: American poet | Britannica

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