The Savage's Romance: The Poetry of Marianne Moore

by John M. Slatin

Concentrating on the work Marianne Moore produced during the first two decades of her long career (1915 36), John Slatin's closely documented account of Moore's poetic development affords a radically new sense of Moore's concerns and of her stature as a poet, countering the usual image of Moore as a charming eccentric whose work is unrelated to that of any other poet. Virtually everything Moore wrote responds in some way to the profound sense of isolation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271004258
• ISBN13: 9780271004259
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"