Marianne Moore

Host Warren Bower and poet Marianne Moore discuss her 1961 collection, A Marianne Moore Reader and how she chose the book's contents, a mix of poetry and her nonfiction writing.

This is a recording of the 1953 awards ceremony of the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The host, Archibald MacLeish, provides opening remarks and introduces Louis Kronenberger who inducts ten new members.

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