Object Details
Depicts
Marianne Moore, American, 1887 - 1972
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Marianne Moore was honored with a 25-cent commemorative stamp, the eighth in the Literary Arts Series. The stamp was issued on April 18, 1990, in Brooklyn, New York.
T.S. Eliot helped bring Moore's poems national recognition when, in 1915, he published several of her poems in the Egoist, a London Journal of Imagism. Imagism is the literary movement dedicated to poetry of naturalness, directness, and precision.
Moore was the recipient of the most distinguished literary awards in America and has often been called "America's first lady of poetry."
Designed by M. Gregory Rudd, the stamps were printed in the photogravure process by the American Bank Note Company and issued in panes of fifty.
Reference:
Postal Bulletin (March 22, 1990).
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Credit line
Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
Date
April 18, 1990
Object number
1993.2070.214
Type
Postage Stamps
Medium
paper; ink (multicolored); adhesive / photogravure
Place
United States of America
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Data Source
National Postal Museum
Topic
Literature
Women's Heritage
U.S. Stamps
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Record ID
npm_1993.2070.214