The selected letters of Marianne Moore
By: Bonnie Costello, general editor ; Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller, associate editors.
Contributors: Costello, Bonnie.; Goodridge, Celeste.; Miller, Cristanne.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 597
Subjects: Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 -- Correspondence; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Description: Marianne Moore's correspondence makes up the largest and most broadly significant collection of any modern poet. It documents the first two-thirds of this century, reflecting shifts from Victorian to modernist culture, the experience of the two world wars, the Depression and postwar prosperity, and the changing face of the arts in America and Europe.

Moore wrote letters daily for most of her life - long, intense letters to friends and family; shorter, but always distinctive letters to an ever-widening circle of acquaintances and fans. At the height of her celebrity, she would occasionally write as many as fifty letters a day. Both Moore and her correspondents appreciated the value of their exchange, so that an extraordinary number of letters, approximately thirty thousand, have been preserved.
Notes: Includes index.