Marianne Moore - Selected Works

Selected Works

• Poems, 1921. Published in London by H.D. and Bryher. Moore disapproved of the timing, editing, selections, and format of this collection. See The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore, ed. Bonnie Costello et al., NY: Knopf, 1997, p. 164. In a letter to Bryher, Moore notes ". . . I wouldn't have the poems appear now if I could help it and would not have some of them ever appear and would make certain changes . . . ."
• Observations, 1924.
• Selected Poems, 1935. Introduction by T. S. Eliot.
• The Pangolin and Other Verse, 1936.
• What Are Years, 1941.
• Nevertheless, 1944.
• A Face, 1949.
• Collected Poems, 1951.
• Fables of La Fontaine, 1954. Verse translations of La Fontaine's fables.
• Predilections: Literary Essays, 1955.
• Idiosyncrasy and Technique, 1966.
• Like a Bulwark, 1956.
• O To Be a Dragon, 1959.
• Idiosyncrasy and Technique, 1959.
• The Marianne Moore Reader, 1961.
• Eight Poems, 1962, with illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker.
• The Absentee: A Comedy in Four Acts, 1962. A dramatization of Maria Edgeworth's novel.
• Puss in Boots, The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, 1963. Adaptations from Perrault.
• Dress and Kindred Subjects, 1965.
• Poetry and Criticism, 1965.
• Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel and Other Topics, 1966.
• The Complete Poems, 1967.
• The Accented Syllable, 1969.
• Homage to Henry James, 1971. Essays by Moore, Edmund Wilson, etc.
• The Complete Poems, 1981.
• The Complete Prose, 1986, edited by Patricia C. Willis.
• The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore, edited by Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridge, Cristanne Miller. Knopf, 1997.