Further Reading
- Bazin, Victoria. "Marianne Moore, Kenneth Burke and the Poetics of Literary Labour." Journal of American Studies 35, no. 3 (2001): 433-52. (A critical assessment of Moore's works, considered in the context of the political culture of the 1930s.)
- Eliot, T. S. "Introduction to Selected Poems." In Marianne Moore: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Charles Tomlinson, pp. 60-65. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969. (Offers a complimentary assessment of Moore's poetry and literary contributions in an essay originally published in 1935 as the preface to her Selected Poems.)
- Goodridge, Celeste. Hints and Disguises: Marianne Moore and Her Contemporaries. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989, 175 p. (An overview of Moore's career as a poet-critic in the company of twentieth-century American poets Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and T. S. Eliot.)
- Hall, Donald. "Fables and Collected Poems." In Marianne Moore: The Cage and the Animal, pp. 114-33. New York: Pegasus, 1970. (Discusses Moore's translations of LaFontaine's Fables and offers a brief review of Moore's 1951 volume, Collected Poems.)
- Hall, Donald. "O To Be a Dragon." In Marianne Moore: The Cage and the Animal, pp. 154-65. New York: Pegasus, 1970. (Offers a favorable assessment of Moore's 1959 volume, O To Be a Dragon.)
- Joyce, Elisabeth W. "The Collage of ‘Marriage’: Marianne Moore's Formal and Cultural Critique." Mosaic 26, no. 4 (Fall 1993): 103-18. (An examination of what Joyce calls Moore's application of the creative technique of collage in the composition of the poem, “Marriage.”)
- Leavell, Linda. Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995, 237 p. (Traces the influence of modernism in the visual arts on the poetry and prose of Marianne Moore, as well as Moore's influence on the emergence of modernism in American culture.)
- Martin, Taffy. Marianne Moore: Subversive Modernist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986, 151 p. (A biographical and critical treatment of Moore's life and work as a modernist poet in America.)
- Miller, Christiane. "Marianne Moore and the Women Modernizing New York." Modern Philology 98, no. 2 (November 2000): 339-62. (Miller examines Moore's role as critic and poet in the emergence of modernist art forms in New York City during the 1920s.)
- Miller, Meredith. "These Mummies Must be Handled Carefully: Domination, Appropriation, and Cultural Origins in Marianne Moore's Egypts." Sagetrieb 16, no. 3 (Winter 1997): 35-62. (An examination of Egyptian images, themes, and motifs in Moore's poetry.)
- Nitchie, George W. Marianne Moore: An Introduction to the Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969, 205 p. (A biographical overview of Moore's life and work as a poet.)
- Paul, Catherine. "‘Discovery, Not Salvage’: Marianne Moore's Curatorial Methods." Studies in the Literary Imagination 32, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 91-114. (Paul traces interrelationships between Moore's writings and the museums of New York City.)
- Schulman, Grace. "A Way of Seeing: The Poetics of Inquiry." In Marianne Moore: The Poetry of Engagement, pp. 27-41. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986. (Traces the influence of French Symbolist poets on Moore's poetry.)
- Schulman, Grace. "‘A Quite New Rhythm’: The Spoken Art of Marianne Moore's Poetry." In Marianne Moore: The Poetry of Engagement, pp. 97-116. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986. (Analyzes the cadence, structure, and aural characteristics of Moore's poetry.)
- Schulze, Robin G. The Web of Friendship: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995, 252 p. (An examination of the personal and professional friendship of two American poets.)
- Smith, William Jay. "The Marianne Mynah: a Memoir of Marianne Moore." The New Criterion 19, no. 2 (October 2000): 22-28. (Smith recalls Moore as a literary mentor and friend.)
- Tomlinson, Charles. "Introduction: Marianne Moore, Her Poetry and Her Critics." In Marianne Moore: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1-15. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969. (Highlights noteworthy characteristics of Moore's poetry and offers a brief summary of the critical treatment of the poet.)
- Williams, William Carlos. "Marianne Moore (1925)." In Marianne Moore: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Charles Tomlinson, pp. 52-59. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969. (American modernist poet Williams offers an early review of Moore's poetry in an essay originally published in Dial, LXXVII (May 1925).)
- Willis, Patricia C. Marianne Moore: Vision into Verse. Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum & Library, 1987, 103 p. (A biographical and critical treatment of Moore as a modernist American poet.)
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