Moore, Marianne (Vol. 1) - Moore, Marianne 1887–1972
Moore, Marianne 1887–1972
A major American poet, Miss Moore won the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
[Marianne Moore] not only can, but must, make poetry out of everything and anything: she is like Midas, or like Mozart choosing unpromising themes for the fun of it, or like one of those princesses whom wizards force to manufacture sheets out of nettles. And yet there is one thing Miss Moore has a distaste for making poetry of: the Poetic. She has made a principle out of refusing to believe that there is any such thing as the antipoetic….
Her poems have the virtues—form, concentration, emotion, observation, imagination, and so on—that one expects of poetry; but one also finds in them, in supersaturated solution, some of the virtues of good prose….
Miss Moore, in spite of a restraint unparalleled in our time, is a natural, excessive, and...
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