8vo. Signed on the front free endpaper by the author, "For 'Hope' Kane and 'Timothy' Kane / Hope and Timothy Childs* / (That three Dragons for one family do not seem too many, dear Mr. and Mrs. R. Keith Kane, makes me very grateful.) / Marianne Moore / *It looks as if the author of O To be a Dragon cannot read!" With a holograph note laid in replying to a request for this inscription offering to replace this copy "if this is too blundering," signed "MM." Original white cloth-backed blue cloth-textured boards, spine stamped in silver. Includes dust jacket. Minor rubbing to board edges. Dust jacket unclipped, very slight toning to spine panel and flap folds, minor rubbing and slight wear to extremities.
Includes Author Notes [pp. 33-37]. "Nobody but Miss Moore writes like Miss Moore - that is, in strictest accordance with poetic rules invented by and for herself. "I feel that the form," she says, "is the outward equivalent of a determining inner conviction, and that the rhythm is the person." Here, in fifteen distinguished new poems, she presents such diverse subjects as dragons, chameleons, jellyfish, the early Jamestown settlers, the arctic ox, Saint Nicholas, Saint Jerome, and the Brooklyn (not Los Angeles) Dodgers. All these are treated with a sense of delight in the variety of life, as well as a mastery of the exact comparison and of the phrase that illuminates a whole experience. Beginning with The Dial Award in 1924, Marianne Moore has received almost every honor that can be granted to an American poet, including the high esteem of her contemporaries. T.S. Eliot said of her poems that they "form part of the small body of durable poetry written in our time .in which an original sensibility and alert intelligence and deep feeling have been engaged in a maintaining the life of the English language." W.H. Auden went further. "The endless musical and structural possibilities of Miss Moore's invention," he said, "are a treasure from which all future English poets will be able to plunder. I have already stolen a great deal myself." (inner front jacket flap)
8vo. Signed on the front free endpaper by the author, "For 'Hope' Kane and 'Timothy' Kane / Hope and Timothy Childs* / (That three Dragons for one family do not seem too many, dear Mr. and Mrs. R. Keith Kane, makes me very grateful.) / Marianne Moore / *It looks as if the author of O To be a Dragon cannot read!" With a holograph note laid in replying to a request for this inscription offering to replace this copy "if this is too blundering," signed "MM." Original white cloth-backed blue cloth-textured boards, spine stamped in silver. Includes dust jacket. Minor rubbing to board edges. Dust jacket unclipped, very slight toning to spine panel and flap folds, minor rubbing and slight wear to extremities.
Includes Author Notes [pp. 33-37]. "Nobody but Miss Moore writes like Miss Moore - that is, in strictest accordance with poetic rules invented by and for herself. "I feel that the form," she says, "is the outward equivalent of a determining inner conviction, and that the rhythm is the person." Here, in fifteen distinguished new poems, she presents such diverse subjects as dragons, chameleons, jellyfish, the early Jamestown settlers, the arctic ox, Saint Nicholas, Saint Jerome, and the Brooklyn (not Los Angeles) Dodgers. All these are treated with a sense of delight in the variety of life, as well as a mastery of the exact comparison and of the phrase that illuminates a whole experience. Beginning with The Dial Award in 1924, Marianne Moore has received almost every honor that can be granted to an American poet, including the high esteem of her contemporaries. T.S. Eliot said of her poems that they "form part of the small body of durable poetry written in our time .in which an original sensibility and alert intelligence and deep feeling have been engaged in a maintaining the life of the English language." W.H. Auden went further. "The endless musical and structural possibilities of Miss Moore's invention," he said, "are a treasure from which all future English poets will be able to plunder. I have already stolen a great deal myself." (inner front jacket flap)