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CHARLES ALTIERI (ESSAY DATE SUMMER 1988)

SOURCE: Altieri, Charles. "The Powers of Genuine Place: Moore's Feminist Modernism." Southern Humanities Review 22, no. 3 (summer 1988): 205-22.

In the following essay, Altieri explores the ways in which Moore's gender influenced her modernist verse.

Perhaps nothing captures the fundamental values projected by Modernist American poetry better than William Carlos Williams's image of the "artist figure of / the farmer—composing/—antagonist" who

in deep thought
is pacing through the rain
among his blank fields, with
hands in pockets,
in his head
the harvest already planted.
("Spring and All," in Imaginations, 98-99.)

This is Constructivism's lonely and sublime sense of the responsibilities of artistic intelligence faced with the daunting task of transposing the uncontaminated latent energies of that landscape into...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Marianne Moore (Letter Dates 14 February 1909 And 31 August 1921)
4. General Commentary
   1. Tess Gallagher (Essay Date 1985)
   2. Charles Altieri (Essay Date Summer 1988)
5. Title Commentary
   1. "Marriage"
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

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