First Pitch
Frank Kermode: Marianne Moore, 16 April 1998
The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore
edited by Bonnie Costello and Celeste Goodridge et al.
Faber, 597 pp., £30, April 1998,0 571 19354 4 Show More
edited by Bonnie Costello and Celeste Goodridge et al.
Faber, 597 pp., £30, April 1998,
“... We are told by the editors that some 30,000 letters of Marianne Moore survive, many of them extremely long, and that she sometimes wrote fifty letters a day. When she was young and not famous her family saved her letters; later on people kept some because she had become rather famous, and then a great many because she had become very famous. Correspondents, some as famous as she was, treasured every word she wrote them ... ”
