Tuesday, January 13, 2004

 

Was reading Marianne Moore last night, and of course, noting her famous and multiplicitous quotations. Has anyone ever gone through the poems (or some at least) and tried to figure out what sources she was quoting? Here's a book on quotation in modern poetry, but god only knows if they went to the trouble to track sources, or are just yakking about the general aesthetic nature of the practice. There has to be a thesis for somebody in this. Or is this the sort of thing only I would care about? (I'm in a profession that teaches me to feel uneasy about quotations without citations). Is there reason to suspect she may have made up, or altered, some quotes? She quotes so much that I can't believe they're all easy-to-find, look-it-up-in-Bartlett's type deals.

But, here's a link about a journal article called Marianne Moore and the Arcadian Pleasures of Shopping, which is a title for a poem if I ever freaking heard one. Shall I steal it hence? Oh, mais oui.

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