Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Editor's Note: How to Use This Edition Abbreviations and Textual Practices Introduction Moore's Early Volumes: From Poems (1921) to Observations (1924) OBSERVATIONS (1924) Front Material "To an Intra-Mural Rat". "Reticence and Volubility" "To a Chameleon" "A Talisman" "To a Prize Bird" "Injudicious Gardening" "Fear Is Hope" "To a Strategist" "Is Your Town Nineveh?" "A Fool, a Foul Thing, a Distressful Lunatic" "To Military Progress" "An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish "To a Steam Roller" "Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight" "To a Snail" "'The Bricks Are Fallen Down, We Will Build with Hewn Stones. The Sycamores Are Cut Down, We Will Change to Cedars.'" "George Moore" "'Nothing Will Cure the Sick Lion but to Eat an Ape'" "To the Peacock of France" "In This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good and" "To Statecraft Embalmed" "Poetry" "The Past Is the Present" "Pedantic Literalist" "'He Wrote the History Book'" "Critics and Connoisseurs" "To Be Liked by You Would Be a Calamity" "Like a Bulrush" "Sojourn in the Whale" "My Apish Cousins" "Roses Only" "Reinforcements" "The Fish" "Black Earth" "Radical" "In the Days of Prismatic Color" "Peter" "Dock Rats" "Picking and Choosing" "England" "When I Buy Pictures" "A Grave" "Those Various Scalpels" "The Labors of Hercules" "New York" "People's Surroundings" "Snakes, Mongooses, Snake-Charmers, and the Like" "Bowls" "Novices" "Marriage" "Silence" "An Octopus" "Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns" Moore's Notes Moore's Index FIRST PRESENTATIONS OF MOORE'S POEMS PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1907 AND 1924 THAT APPEAR IN OBSERVATIONS Poems listed here appear in the order in which they appear in Observations "To an Intra-Mural Rat" "The Wizard in Words" "You are Like the Realistic Product of an Idealistic Search for Gold at the Foot of the Rainbow" "A Talisman" "To Bernard Shaw: A Prize Bird" "To Browning" "Sun!" "To Disraeli on Conservatism" "Is Your Town Nineveh?" "Masks" "To the Soul of 'Progress'" "To a Steam Roller" "Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight" "George Moore" "French Peacock" " In This Age of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, and" "To Statecraft Embalmed" "Poetry" So Far as the future is concerned, "Shall not one say, with the Russian philosopher, 'How is one to know what one doesn't know?'" So far as the present is concerned, "Pedantic Literalist" "' He Wrote the History Book,' It Said" "Critics and Connoisseurs" "To Be Liked by You Would Be a Calamity" "Like a Bulrush" "Sojourn in the Whale" "My Apish Cousins" "Roses Only" "Reinforcements" "The Fish" "Black Earth" "Radical" "In the Days of Prismatic Colour" "Dock Rats" "Picking and Choosing" "England" "When I Buy Pictures" "A Graveyard" "Those Various Scalpels" "The Labours of Hercules" "New York" "People's Surroundings" "Snakes, Mongooses, Snake-Charmers and the Like." "Bowls" "Novices" "Marriage" "Silence" "An Octopus" "Sea Unicorns and Land Unicorns" FIRST PRESENTATIONS OF MOORE'S POEMS PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1907 AND 1924 THAT DO NOT APPEAR IN OBSERVATIONS "Under a Patched Sail" "To Come After a Sonnet" "To My Cup-Bearer" "The Sentimentalist" "To a Screen-Maker" "Ennui" "A Red Flower" "A Jelly-Fish" "Progress" "My Lantern" "Tunica Pallio Proprior" "My Senses Do Not Deceive Me" "Qui S'Excuse, S'Accuse" "Leaves of a Magazine" "The Beast of Burden" "Councell to a Bachelor" "Things Are What They Seem" "To a Man Working His Way Through the Crowd" "That Harp You Play So Well" "Appellate Jurisdiction" "To William Butler Yeats on Tagore" "The North Wind to a Dutiful Beast Midway Between the Dial and the Foot of a Garden Clock" "Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel" "To a Friend in the Making" "Blake" "Diogenes" "You Are Fire Eaters" "Feed Me, Also, River God" "Holes Bored in a Workbag by the Scissors" "Apropos of Mice" "The Just Man and" "In 'Designing a Cloak to Cloak His Designs,' You Wrested from Oblivion, a Coat of Immortality for Your Own Use" "The Past Is the Present" "An Ardent Platonist" "You Say You Said" MOORE'S POEMS IN THEIR PUBLICATION CONTEXTS: A PUBLICATION BIOGRAPHY Broom Bruno's Weekly The Chimaera Contact Contemporary Verse The Dial The Egoist The Little Review Manikin Others Poetry Secession CHRONOLOGICAL LIST oF THE FIRST PRESENTATIONS OF MOORE'S POEMS BETWEEN THE YEARS 1907 AND 1924 WITH CORRESPONDING PAGE NUMBERS TO THIS EDITION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF PERMISSIONS ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO ALL POEMS IN THIS EDITION.

About the Author

Robin G. Schulze is an Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of The Web of Friendship: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens (1995).