Moore, Marianne - Jeanne Heuving (essay date 1992)
Jeanne Heuving (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: Heuving, Jeanne. “Moore's ‘High’ Modernism: A Comparison with Her Male Peers.” In Omissions Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore, pp. 30-48. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 1992.
[In the following essay, Heuving contrasts specific examples of Moore's poetry with thematically similar poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams.]
Some feminine poets of the present day seem to have grown horns and to like to be frightful and dainty by turns; but distorted propriety suggests effeteness.
—Marianne Moore, Trial Balances (1935)1
In making works of art, the only legitimate warfare is the inevitable warfare between imagination and medium. …
—Marianne Moore, The Dial (1926)2
Before beginning my discussion of the chronological...
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