‘Its native surroundings’: Marianne Moore, England, and the idea of the ‘characteristic American’
Marianne Moore claimed that she was ‘Irish by descent, possibly Scotch also, but purely Celtic’. Critics have gone so far as to claim Moore as an Irish-American poet. In so doing they have glossed over the English side of her family background (as did Moore herself). This is perhaps unsurprising, co...
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Edinburgh University Press
2016
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