133.00 USD
Clinical Sonnets
First Edition, 3rd Printing 1950
Illegitimate Sonnets
First Edition, 1950
These rare books are in good condition for their are. There is some wear to the dust jackets, but the hard covers underneath have been protected nicely. There's a small inscription on the inside title page of each book. Please see photos for better representation of condition. Books come in a protective cardboard case that has some damage.
Merrill Moore
1903–1957
"Poet and psychiatrist Merrill Moore was born in Tennessee to literary parents: both his father and mother were directors of Tennessee’s libraries, archives, and history. Moore earned his BA and MD from Vanderbilt University, where he became associated with a group of young poets known as the Fugitives. His first poems were published under the pen name “Dendric” in their literary magazine, the Fugitive.
Moore wrote many thousands of sonnets during his lifetime—at least 50,000. Described as distinctly American by critic Louis Untermeyer, Moore’s sonnets were conversational, loose, and syncopated. He published more than 40 collections of poetry, including The Noise That Time Makes (1929), Six Sides to a Man: New Sonnets (1935), Clinical Sonnets (1949), A Doctor’s Book of Hours Including Some Dimensions of the Emotions (1955), and Experimental Sonnets (1956).
Moore moved to Boston in 1930 and became a practicing psychiatrist specializing in alcoholism and suicide. He served in World War II, earning a Bronze Star and an Army Commendation medal. He was a friend of Robert Frost and Robert Lowell; Frost once described Moore as a “serious physician and serious artist [who] had no notion of being taken lightly; still there was something of the rogue there that was a part of his great charm. He seldom cracked a smile.” Moore died in Quincy, Massachusetts."