A selective bibliography of open access articles on Marianne Moore, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Burt, Stephen. An introduction to Marianne Moore from Stephen Burt, published in Slate, Nov. 2003
Costello, Bonnie, ed. A review of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (NY: Knopf, 1997). "'The handkerchiefs almost frighten us by their perfection.' Who but Marianne Moore could possibly have written this?" Reviewed by Kay Ryan in The Boston Review, Summer 1998
Costello, Bonnie, ed. "First Pitch," an article by Frank Kermode on The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (London: Faber), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 20 No. 8 (4/16/98)
Costello, Bonnie. "Tribute: Marianne Moore." Talk for the Poetry Society of America, at the Boston Public Library, on November 6, 1997
Reddy, Srikanth. "'To Explain Grace Requires a Curious Hand': Marianne Moore's Interdisciplinary Digressions." Compared to Jonathan Swift, for whom digression indicated an intellectual lack of order, Marianne Moore's poetic of digression is emblematic of early twentieth century cosmopolitan life. In American Literature from e-Duke 77(3): 451-481 (2005) (no longer free)
Schulman, Grace, ed. A New York Times review of The Poems Of Marianne Moore, edited by Grace Schulman, Jan. 4, 2004, reviewed by Brad Leithauser
Schulze, Robin G. "Marianne Moore's 'Imperious Ox, Imperial Dish' and The Poetry Of The Natural World," Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1998
White, Heather Cass. "Morals, Manners, and 'Marriage': Marianne Moore's Art of Conversation," Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 1999
Wilson, Peter. A substantial introduction to Marianne Moore from the Literary Encyclopedia
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Excerpts from reputable critical articles on poems by Marianne Moore: On "Poetry," On "The Fish," On "Sojourn in the Whale," On "A Grave," On "Silence," On "Marriage," On "An Octopus," On "No Swan So Fine," On "The Pangolin," On "Bird-Witted," On "The Paper Nautilus," On "Spenser's Ireland," On "Peter," On "An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish," On "Marriage" and "An Octopus." Modern American Poetry web site (Univ. of Illinois)
Short biography of Marianne Moore from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
A teacher's guide to Marianne Moore, from Heath publishers
A web site on teaching Marianne Moore from the Annenberg/PBS project "American Passages"
A chronology for Marianne Moore and some notes on her work, from Professor Susan Tichy
Marianne Moore's acceptance speech on receiving the 1952 National Book Award for Collected Poems
A web exhibit of the painting "Marianne Moore and her mother" by artist Marguerite Zorach, at the Smithsonian
A Yale Library exhibition documents the influence of Oriental aesthetics on American modernists including Marianne Moore and others
Professor Joseph Conte's syllabus for English 633 Poetic Texture: The Smooth and the Striated in Postmodern Poetry, Fall 2001
A very brief introduction to Marianne Moore from the Academy of American Poets
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