'Irish by descent': Marianne Moore, Irish writers and the American-Irish Inheritance'

Despite having a rather weak family connection to Ireland, the American modernist poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) described herself in a letter to Ezra Pound in 1919 as ‘Irish by descent’. This thesis relates Moore’s claim of Irish descent to her career as a publisher, poet and playwright, and argu...

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Main Authors: Stubbs, T, Dr. Tara Stubbs
Other Authors: O'Donoghue, B
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2008
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