Chronology Entry
Year
1927
Text
Moore, Marianne. To accept congratulations. In : The Dial ; no 84 (March 1928).
We confessed to admiring instinctiveness, concentration, and tentativeness ; to realizing that gusto is not incompatible with learning, and to favoring opulence in asceticism. It is apparent also in lines by Sung Lien that such liking is not recent.
"In the dormitory I had two meals a day, but nothing fresh, fat, or of any good taste. All other schoolmates were dressed up in fine silk and with embroidery ; their hats were decorated with jewels ; their girdles made of white jade. Every one bore a sword on his left, and perfume at his right. They looks as shining and dignified as angels. While living among them I wore my cotton robe and tattered clothes, but had not the slightest desire to be like them, for I had my enjoyment focused upon something different, knowing not that my bodily wants were not as well supplied as those of others." Translated from the Chinese by Kwei Chen. Literary Magazine of the University of Wisconsin. December, 1927.
[Betr. Song, Lian. Farwell to my young friend.]
We confessed to admiring instinctiveness, concentration, and tentativeness ; to realizing that gusto is not incompatible with learning, and to favoring opulence in asceticism. It is apparent also in lines by Sung Lien that such liking is not recent.
"In the dormitory I had two meals a day, but nothing fresh, fat, or of any good taste. All other schoolmates were dressed up in fine silk and with embroidery ; their hats were decorated with jewels ; their girdles made of white jade. Every one bore a sword on his left, and perfume at his right. They looks as shining and dignified as angels. While living among them I wore my cotton robe and tattered clothes, but had not the slightest desire to be like them, for I had my enjoyment focused upon something different, knowing not that my bodily wants were not as well supplied as those of others." Translated from the Chinese by Kwei Chen. Literary Magazine of the University of Wisconsin. December, 1927.
[Betr. Song, Lian. Farwell to my young friend.]
Mentioned People (2)
Moore, Marianne
(Kirkwood, Miss. 1887-1972 New York, N.Y.) : Dichterin, Schriftstellerin
[Permission for quotations by Cynthia Stamy and Qian Zhaoming].
[Permission for quotations by Cynthia Stamy and Qian Zhaoming].
Song, Lian
(Jinhua, Zhejiang 1310-1381) : Präsident Hanlin Akademie, Schriftsteller
Subjects
Literature : Occident : United States of America
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1986 | Moore, Marianne. The complete prose of Marianne Moore. Ed. and with an introd. by Patricia C. Willis. (New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1986). S. 196-197. | Publication / Moo7 |
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