Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was an American poet, editor, reviewer, and translator. Her poetry is an innovative mixture of common and exotic things and creatures, forthright and imaginatively playful. Marianne Moore was one of the most interesting poets...

Marianne Moore made a new kind of verse, yet she denied that she was a poet. She worked with words: they were her trade. What she wrote was called poetry, she said, because there was no other category in which to put it. There are, in fact, no commonly...

One of America's foremost literary figures, Moore has been considered by feminist critics to be a singular and important female poetic voice. She is known for creating verse characterized by loose rhythms, carefully chosen words, close attention...

Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and...

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 overwhelmed--crabmeat in alligator pears, each a half broiled chicken,...

What most readers remember of Marianne Moore are her beasts--her jerboa, her ostrich, her pangolin. Late in her life, when the brilliant strangeness of her early poems had receded into the mists, she became a fabulous beast herself, poetry's most endearing mascot. In...

The Rosenbach Museum & Library is celebrating the work of Maurice Sendak with an expansion of its gallery space and "Really Rosie," a new show exploring the children's book author's collaboration with singer-songwriter Carole King."Really Rosie," perhaps best known to people who grew up in...

On a languid Friday evening in early June, the West Village street where Marianne Moore once penned modernist poems and Theodore Dreiser scribbled his novels was hushed and serene, like the setting for an E.M. Forster adaptation. (And, in fact, the British novelist stayed there...

In the following essay, Garrigue provides an assessment of the poetry and career of Marianne Moore.

In the following essay, Engel offers a critical overview of the poetry produced by Moore from the late 1950s through the publication of “Prevalent at One Time” in the fall of 1970, the last of her verse to appear during her lifetime.

In the following essay, Holley provides an overview of poems written during the first several years of Moore's post-college career.