The Saintsbury Years of Marianne Moore.

In 1925 Marianne Moore did what Emily Dickinson had done in 1862, enlisting a wellknown critic to her cause. While Dickinson found in T. W. Higginson an addressee for her poems, Moore, upon becoming the editor of The Dial, made George Saintsbury a regular contributor -- his historical perspective un...

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Publicado en:Textual Cultures: Text, Contexts, Interpretation (Indiana University Press) Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 46 - 76
Autor principal: Esdale, Logan
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Indiana University Press Spring2010
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