[Mina Loy and Marianne Moore] have, without exaggerated "nationalism", without waving of banners and general phrases Mina Loy 1882–1966 Photograph by Lee Miller: courtesy of Mrs. Herbert Bayerabout Columbia gem of the ocean, succeeded in, or fallen into, producing something distinctly American in quality, not merely distinguishable as Americans by reason of current national faults.

Their work is neither simple, sensuous nor passionate, but as we are no longer governed by the North American Review we need not condemn poems merely because they do not fit some stock phrase of rhetorical criticism. (p. 57)

In the verse of Marianne Moore I detect traces of emotion: in that of Mina Loy I detect no emotion whatever. Both of these women are, possibly in unconsciousness, among the followers of Jules Laforgue (whose work shows a great deal of emotion). It is possible, as I have written, or intended to write elsewhere...