Moore, Marianne Craig
Moore, Marianne Craig ( 1887 – 1972 ),American poet, born in Missouri. From 1925 to 1929 she was editor of the Dial , and contributed greatly to its distinction. Her first volume, Poems ( 1921 ), was followed by Observations ( 1924 ), Selected Poems ( 1935 , with an introduction by T. S. Eliot ), The Pangolin, and Other Verse ( 1936 ), and other collections; her Collected Poems appeared in 1951 . Her early work was well known in Britain, admired by I. A. Richards , and anthologized by Michael Roberts . Her tone is characteristically urbane, sophisticated, and conversational, her observations detailed and precise, and her poems are composed for the page with a strong sense of visual effect. Her subject matter—animals, both homely and exotic, baseball matches, art galleries, catalogues, etc.—is idiosyncratic and has been described as ‘incontrovertibly...
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