Marianne Moore

The Rosenbach’s literary collections include virtually all of the manuscripts and papers of Modernist poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972), as well as her personal library, thousands of photographs, and the contents of her Greenwich village living room, thus making the Rosenbach the undisputed center for the study of this important American writer. The Moore Collection is a unique literary repository, preserving intact a comprehensive record of a writer’s intellectual development. The Rosenbach has become a pilgrimage site for students and lovers of twentieth-century American art and literature, and the Moore papers are the heart of this collection. Their great significance to the story of Moore’s artistic and intellectual growth, as well as that of her peers, including Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens and many more has made the Moore papers such an important and heavily-used resource. Moore’s Greenwich Village living room is permanently installed on the third floor of the historic Rosenbach house and is always on view to visitors as part of the Rosenbach house tour. The over 2,500 personal objects from the Moore room, ranging from furniture to figurines to postage stamps have been cataloged and are also a fruitful source of inquiry for interested researchers. Access Phil, the Rosenbach’s collections database, here.

Collection Guides

• Summary of Marianne Moore collections

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series I Poetry

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series II Prose

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series III Book Manuscripts

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series IV Translations

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series V General Correspondence: Section 1 (92nd Street Y – Byrne, Evelyn B.)

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series V General Correspondence: Section 2 (C.W. Post College – Dylan Thomas Fund)

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series V General Correspondence: Section 3 (E.P. Dutton Co. – Hyman, Stanley)

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series V General Correspondence: Section 4 (Iberica Publishing Co. – McWilliams, Helen)

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series V General Correspondence: Section 5 (Meacham, Harry M. – Putnam, John)

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series V General Correspondence: Section 6 (Quarterly Review of Literature – Szul, A. V.)

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series V General Correspondence: Section 7 (Talbot, Richard – Zuilli, Lillian and unidentified correspondence)

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series VI Family Correspondence

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series VII Notebooks

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series VIII Datebooks and Calendars

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series IX Address Books

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series X Albums

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series XI Financial Records

• Guide to Marianne Moore Series XV Awards & Degrees

Digital Archive

In partnership with the Marianne Moore Digital Archive at the University at Buffalo, select Marianne Moore notebooks from our collection have been digitized. A group of Moore scholars is using the digital images to transcribe the contents, which include notes on the vast array of reading, lectures, conversations, and other sources from which Moore drew inspiration for her poems; as well as drafts of some of the poems themselves.

View the Marianne Moore Digital Archive here.