Moore, Marianne (Vol. 2) - Moore, Marianne 1887–1972
Moore, Marianne 1887–1972
A major American poet, Miss Moore was the recipient of the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.; obituary, Vols. 33-36.)
Miss Moore does not build ethereal castles, but she observes the inhabitant of a zoological or botanical garden or of a museum case with a particularity that realizes and solidifies the object. She delights in accurate delineation, whether of lizards, buffaloes, or swans. She is especially good at catching creatures in motion.
Babette Deutsch, in her Poetry in Our Time (copyright by Babette Deutsch), New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1952, pp. 92-3.
Marianne Moore has as careful and acute an eye as anybody alive, and almost as good a tongue. The reader relishes in her poems a fineness and strangeness and firmness of discrimination that he is not accustomed to. Her...
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