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Moore, Marianne,
in full MARIANNE CRAIG MOORE (b. Nov. 15, 1887, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.--d. Feb. 5,
1972, New York, N.Y.), American poet whose work distilled moral and intellectual
insights from the close and accurate observation of objective detail. A
disciplined craftsman, she won the admiration of fellow poets throughout her
long career. The poet and critic T.S. Eliot called her one of the few producers
of durable poetry in her time.
Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College
in Pennsylvania in 1909 as a biology major and then studied commercial subjects
and taught them at the U.S. Indian School in Carlisle, Pa. From 1921 to 1925 she
was an assistant in the New York Public Library system. In 1925--already well
known as one of the leading new poets--she became acting editor of The
Dial, an influential American journal of literature and arts, and
remained there until it was discontinued in 1929.
In 1921 her first book, Poems,
was published in London by the Egoist Press. Her first American volume, Observations
(1924), won the Dial Award. These initial volumes already exhibited her
conciseness and her creation of a mosaic of juxtaposed images leading unerringly
to a conclusion that, at its best, is both surprising and inevitable. They
contain some of her best-known poems, including "To a Steam Roller,"
"The Fish," "When I Buy Pictures," "Peter,"
"The Labors of Hercules," and "Poetry." The last named is
the source of her often-quoted admonition that poets should present imaginary
gardens with real toads in them.
After 1919, living in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
she devoted herself to poetry and criticism, contributing to many journals in
the United States and England and publishing several books of verse. Collected
Poems appeared in 1951. She also wrote a translation of The
Fables of La Fontaine (1954); a volume of critical papers, Predilections (1955); and Idiosyncrasy
and Technique: Two Lectures (1958).
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Bonnie Costello, Marianne
Moore (1981); Margaret Holley, The
Poetry of Marianne Moore (1987); Charles Molesworth, Marianne Moore (1990). |
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