Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore was one of the 20th century’s most accomplished and innovative modernist poets, renowned for the precision and exquisiteness of her imagery. Along with her modernist peers T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, and William Carlos Williams, she helped to reinvent the form of the genre in a manner that showcased her singular aesthetic vision. Her verses, especially the early ones, are at once difficult, sharp, and lucid; critic William Logan described her as “a metaphysical poet...