Chronology Entry
Year
1944
Text
Moore, Marianne. Feeling and precision. In : Sewanee review ; no 52 (Autumn 1944).
Instinctively we employ antithesis as an aid to precision, and in Arthur Waley's translation from the Chinese one notices the many paired meanings - "left and right" ; "walking and sleeping" ; "one embroiders with silk, an inch a day ; of plain sewing one can do more than five feet."
Instinctively we employ antithesis as an aid to precision, and in Arthur Waley's translation from the Chinese one notices the many paired meanings - "left and right" ; "walking and sleeping" ; "one embroiders with silk, an inch a day ; of plain sewing one can do more than five feet."
Mentioned People (1)
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].
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. 397. | Publication / Moo7 |
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