Marguerite Young
Marguerite Young
Reading Date: Wednesday, February 16, 1966
- Introduction
- Opening Remarks: On the critical reception of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
- "Ballad-Loving"
- "Death by Rarity"
- "Legend in Grass: Of Innocence and Evil"
- "Figures of Space"
- Excerpt from Chapter 2 of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
- On the opium addict character in Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
- Excerpt from Chapter 64 of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
Introduction-5230
Introduction begins mid-sentence.
Opening Remarks: On the critical reception of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling-5231
"Ballad-Loving"-5232
Young, Marguerite. Prismatic Ground. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937.
"Death by Rarity"-5233
Young, Marguerite. Moderate Fable. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944.
"Legend in Grass: Of Innocence and Evil"-5234
Young, Marguerite. Moderate Fable. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944.
"Figures of Space"-5235
Young, Marguerite. Moderate Fable. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944.
Excerpt from Chapter 2 of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling-5236
Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965.
On the opium addict character in Miss MacIntosh, My Darling-5237
Excerpt from Chapter 64 of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling-5238
Young, Marguerite. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965.
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Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): PMM Auditorium
Marguerite Young reads selections of her poetry and excerpts from her novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965), offering commentary on the process and context for each piece.


- beauty
- birds
- myth
- storytelling
- prose poem
- identity
- love
- hybrid
- lyric
- extinction
- women
- rhyme
- dreams
- ecopoetics
- lyric poetry
- writing process
- ballad
- creation
- fantasy
- character
- duality
- biography
- addiction
- lament
- symbolism
- process
- lyrical poetry
- environment
- atomic bomb
- environmentalism
- guggenheim fellow
- prose poetry
- writing advice
- self
- environmental protection
- lyrical
- life/death
- writing
- reality
- symbols
- characters
- uncertainty
- guggenheim fellowship
- prose poems
- rabbits
- lyric poems
- utopia
- shadow
- lamentation
- lyricism
- opium
- bus
- baldness
- imagist
- idealism
- realization
- hallucination
- context
- values
- Rachel Carson
- goddess
- sanity
- sensuality
- critical reception
- glamour
- confusion
- hair
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