Moore, Marianne [Craig]
Moore, Marianne [Craig]( 1887–1972),born in St. Louis, graduated from Bryn Mawr (1909), and lived mainly in New York City, where she edited The Dial (1925–29). She did not publish a book until she was in her mid-thirties, with the issuance of the neutrally titled Poems (1921), followed by the more aptly named Observations (1924). A long hiatus was followed by Selected Poems (1935), which T.S. Eliot in his Introduction declared to be “descriptive rather than lyrical or dramatic.” She herself said in the early poem titled “Poetry” that despite “contempt for …all this fiddle …one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine,” and the “genuine” she defined as “imaginary gardens with real toads in them.” Succeeding collections of poetry appeared in The Pangolin, and Other Verse (1936), What Are Years (1941), Nevertheless (1944), Collected Poems (1951, Pulitzer...
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