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controversy, as a member of a group of literary men who saw to it that the modernist icon escaped a treason trial for his radio propaganda in support of
Mussolini. Moore was a close friend of one of the psychiatrists on a diagnostic panel that found Pound unfit to stand trial.
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had counted 25,000 sonnets in Moore's files, according to a Time
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Across the street, in the Sigma Chi fraternity, he found a distracted seventeen-year-old named
Merrill Moore, who was well on the way to becoming the most prolific sonneteer in history.
192:, a group of then unknown poets who met to read and criticize each other's poems. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1924. He took an M.D. from the
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The Hill of Venus. Poems of Men and Women
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542:The Verse-diary of a psychiatrist
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1361:"Merrill Moore, Poet, Sonneteer"
1014:Barton, J. W. (March 31, 1943).
232:Medical Clinics of North America
208:Moore was a psychiatrist in the
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889:Allen Tate: Orphan of the South
729:"Dr. Merrill Moore (1903-1957)"
644:. New York: Twayne Publishers.
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527:. New York: Twayne Publishers.
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112:M.D., psychiatrist, poet
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735:. Vanderbilt University
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1249:More clinical sonnets
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525:More Clinical Sonnets
324:More Clinical Sonnets
285:for his war service.
247:Bougainville Campaign
212:tradition. He taught
198:Saint Thomas Hospital
182:Vanderbilt University
103:Vanderbilt University
83:, Massachusetts, U.S.
42:Merrill Moore in 1956
19:For the pianist, see
1331:"Prolific Poet Dies"
1192:"Annoyingly Fertile"
1016:"That Body of Yours"
487:Illegitimate Sonnets
222:Boston City Hospital
165:, who served in the
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155:John Trotwood Moore
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