[New-Poetry] "Poetry" question

[John Jeffrey]

Robin,

It appears that there were actually SIX revisions of "Poetry," with variations of line counts, free verse v syllabic stanzas, line lengths, etc.  A short discussion of its history can be found in the book TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies at Google Book Search.  It begins halfway through the bottom paragraph on page 178 of the book preview (which is page 278 of the book).

For texts of the various incarnations, see this link from the Yale library web site, pages 8 to 12 of the pdf file.

Hope this is what you're looking for.

John J






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From: Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com>
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Subject: [New-Poetry] "Poetry" question

In an article by Donald Hall on Marianne Moore's "Poetry", to which my attention was directed by Judy Prince, I found the following:

<<
"Poetry" has had several incarnations. The last version, appearing in the _Complete Poems_ of 1967, is four lines long, having been cut from a poem of thirty-eight lines that appeared in the _Selected Poems_ of 1935 and the Collected Poems of 1951. This longer version, in turn, grew out of the original thirteen lines printed in _Observations_.
>> 

Two questions:

Does anyone have access to the earliest 13 line version, and would it be legitimate to post it?

Am I right in thinking there were *two variants of the 38 line version, where MM adjusted one line to "perfect" the syllabic structure?

Thanks in advance.

Robin



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