Poetry of Moore | The Armored Self: Selected Poems

In the following excerpt, the author writes about Moore’s treatment of the subject of poetry in her poems.

It is a truism that all poems are “about” poetry. At least the next nine pieces in Complete Poems are more or less direct treatments of poetry itself and of the poet and his critics. In “Poetry” Moore stated something of her own artistic creed; in “Pedantic Literalist,” “Critics and Connoisseurs,” and “The Monkeys,” she commented upon criticism; in “In the Days of Prismatic Color,” “Peter,” “Picking and Choosing,” “England,” and “When I Buy Pictures,” she presented particular aspects of her aesthetics.

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