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Monday, November 9, 2015
"To William Butler Yeats on Tagore" by Marianne Moore
Source of the text - Marianne Moore,
Poems
. London: The Egoist Press, 1921, p. 8.
TJB:
Ode to a foreword; poetry as gemcutting. Moore praises her own verse but disguises it as praise of Yeats’s praise of Tagore’s praise of God.
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