Visit to the Rosenbach Museum & Library to discuss Marianne Moore

We visited the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia to meet with curators of the extensive archive there of Marianne Moore’s papers and belongings. Archivist Elizabeth Fuller showed us manuscript versions of Moore’s famous meta-poem “Poetry,” and then we sat with her in a room that replicates Moore’s New York City apartment to talk further about the poem.

Here is a link to the film of our visit and our discussion of Moore’s “Poetry”:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/bDMv9

We are now adding Marianne Moore materials to ModPo for the first time. There is a new Moore section of the ModPoPLUS week 3 (rise of modernism) syllabus, as follows:

PART FOURTEEN: MARIANNE MOORE

14.1 read Marianne Moore’s “To a Snail”: LINK TO TEXT

14.2 watch discussion of Moore’s “To a Snail”: LINK TO VIDEO

14.3 read Marianne Moore’s poem “Poetry”: LINK TO TEXT

14.4 watch discussion in the Moore room & archive at the Rosenbach Museum & discussion of “Poetry”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPIES: part 1 & part 2]