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Article: Marianne Moore: A Literary Life.
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- November 12, 1990
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Marianne Moore: A Literary Life
According to Charles Molesworth's Marianne Moore: A Literary Life (Atheneum, 472 pp., $29.95), the private woman differed from the public perception merely in her more subtle and complex character. During a career that spanned over 40 years, Moore won admiration from the literary community not only for her dazzlingly crafted verse, but for "her agile conversation, her intelligence, and her bracingly high standards," ethical as well as poetic. The Grand Old Men of Modernism accepted her as a trail-blazing innovator. In the movement's second generation, poets from W. H. Auden to Elizabeth Bishop assumed their best manners for the ...