The Poems of Marianne Moore begins with a long section of juvenilia, work not of adolescence but of her college years and after. 1 Even into her mid-twenties, Moore’s poems breathed the fire-smoke of ...

My late mother-in-law, a Boston Brahmin born 100 years ago, about the time of Marianne Moore’s first publication in Poetry magazine, used to respond to almost any book or movie recommendation ...

In 1924, the editors of The Dial persuaded Marianne Moore to publish “Observations,” a collection of poems, so that later they could surprise her with the Dial Award, created just a few years ...

The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore Edited by Harry Ford Knopf, $35, 597 pages It may well be that the ideal situation for the American writer is that of a spinster. Look at the example of ...

On October 3, 1947, Marianne Moore wrote to her brother about a dinner party she had attended the night before, given by Margaret Mitchell, the literary editor of The Nation: I was ...

The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s ...