SOURCE: Holley, Margaret. “Diligence, Magic.” In The Poetry of Marianne Moore: A Study in Voice and Value, pp. 18-43. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
In the following essay, Holley provides an overview of poems written during the first several years of Moore's post-college career.
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