Marianne Moore; the cage and the animal

by Donald Hall

A study of the life, character and art of one of America's finest poets. Accounts for every phase of Marianne Moores's life, the early sources of her unusual character, the quick recognition and encouragement of her work by Ezra Pound, her years as a young poet in Greenwich Village, her distinguished and controversial editorship of the "Dial", the most prestigious literary magazine of its day, her "retirement" to Brooklyn where she continued for decades consistently to produce some of the best poems written in our time.