The Economist (US), January 31st, 2004
A new collection shows why Marianne Moore's graceful and witty poems made her the grande dame of 20th-century American poetry MORE than three decades have passed since the death of the odd, eccentric, brilliant Miss Moore, as she was always known, even to some of her closest friends, including the editor of this definitive edition of her collected poems. In 1968, four years before she died, Marianne Moore edited her own edition of her collected poems, which began with "The Steeple-Jack", a poem she wrote in her 50s. Being a fanatically scrupulous individual, severe on herself and others, she...
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