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While the later work of the great Modernist poet Marianne Moore was hugely popular during her final two decades, since her death critics have condemned it as trivial. This book challenges that assessment: with fresh readings of many of the late poems and of the iconic, cross-dressing public persona Moore developed to deliver them, Apparition of Splendor demonstrates that Moore used her late-life celebrity in daring and innovative ways to activate egalitarian principles that had long animated her poetry. Dressed as George Washington in cape and tricorn and writing about accessible topics like sports, TV shows, holidays, love, activism, mortality and celebrity itself, she reached a wide cross-section of Americans, encouraging them to consider what democracy means in their daily lives, particularly around issues of gender, sexuality, racial integration, class, age, and immigration. Moore actively sought out publication in popular venues (like Vogue, The New Yorker, and the Saturday Evening Post, etc.) and wrote on material chosen to directly appeal to the audiences there, influencing younger contemporaries, including poets like Ashbery, O'Hara, and Bishop, and artists like Warhol, Yoko Ono, and Ray Johnson. ""Apparition of Splendor is brilliant and necessary. It provides an extended look at Marianne Moore's late poetry that no other book-length study has taken on.... Gregory's deep expertise is evident throughout. Her discussions make visible startling networks of connections between poems, and - while maintaining keen focus on the late poems - briskly but sensitively draw upon the earlier poems to clarify continuities and suggest transformations. Her archival and extra-literary research, in Moore's papers and in regard to general cultural contexts, is wonderfully on display with every page. The subject of Moore's late poetry is woefully understudied, and this book will conduct an important intervention in critical tendencies to dismiss this body of work. Apparition of Splendor is a major contribution to Moore studies and to studies of 20th-century American poetry."" - Linda Kinnahan, Duquesne University, author of Feminist Modernism, Poetics, and the New Economy: Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, and Marianne Moore Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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Author:   Elizabeth Gregory
Publisher:   University of Delaware Press
Imprint:   University of Delaware Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.463kg
ISBN:  

9781644531969

ISBN 10:   1644531968
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   13 August 2021
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"""Apparition of Splendor is brilliant and necessary. It provides an extended look at Marianne Moore’s late poetry that no other book-length study has taken on…. Gregory’s deep expertise is evident throughout. Her discussions make visible startling networks of connections between poems, and – while maintaining keen focus on the late poems – briskly but sensitively draw upon the earlier poems to clarify continuities and suggest transformations. Her archival and extra-literary research, in Moore’s papers and in regard to general cultural contexts, is wonderfully on display with every page. The subject of Moore’s late poetry is woefully understudied, and this book will conduct an important intervention in critical tendencies to dismiss this body of work. Apparition of Splendor is a major contribution to Moore studies and to studies of 20th-century American poetry.” -- Linda Kinnahan, Duquesne University, author of Feminist Modernism, Poetics, and the New Economy: Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, and Marianne Moore ""Apparition of Splendor serves as an important academic resource for Moore’s researchers as well as an enjoyable introductory reading for new readers. Gregory offers a brief introduction to Moore’s early life and also sheds light on her early writing techniques in the “Appendix” for the benefit of those who are not familiar with the poet’s life and works. It is also a valuable groundwork for Moore’s scholars, especially for its thoughtprovoking critical reappraisal of the later period of her oeuvre.""   -- Yuxuan Wu, Rutgers State University of New Jersey * Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies *"

""Apparition of Splendor is brilliant and necessary. It provides an extended look at Marianne Moore’s late poetry that no other book-length study has taken on…. Gregory’s deep expertise is evident throughout. Her discussions make visible startling networks of connections between poems, and – while maintaining keen focus on the late poems – briskly but sensitively draw upon the earlier poems to clarify continuities and suggest transformations. Her archival and extra-literary research, in Moore’s papers and in regard to general cultural contexts, is wonderfully on display with every page. The subject of Moore’s late poetry is woefully understudied, and this book will conduct an important intervention in critical tendencies to dismiss this body of work. Apparition of Splendor is a major contribution to Moore studies and to studies of 20th-century American poetry.” — Linda Kinnahan, Duquesne University, author of Feminist Modernism, Poetics, and the New Economy: Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, and Marianne Moore ""Apparition of Splendor serves as an important academic resource for Moore’s researchers as well as an enjoyable introductory reading for new readers. Gregory offers a brief introduction to Moore’s early life and also sheds light on her early writing techniques in the “Appendix” for the benefit of those who are not familiar with the poet’s life and works. It is also a valuable groundwork for Moore’s scholars, especially for its thoughtprovoking critical reappraisal of the later period of her oeuvre.""  — Yuxuan Wu, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

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ELIZABETH GREGORY is a Taylor Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies and Professor of English at the University of Houston, directing the Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Houston. She is the author of Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood and Quotation and Modern American Poetry: ""'Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads.'” 

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