Marianne Moore published multiple books of poetry. She won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Bollingen Prize. Her poems appeared in the Nation, the New Republic, Partisan Review, and the New Yorker.
Book Reviews
Winter 1943
There Is a War That Never Ends
Parts of the World by Wallace Stevens. Knopf. $2.00. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction by Wallace Stevens. Cummington Press. $3.00. Wallace Stevens protects himself so well against profanation that one […]
Poetry
Summer 1940
Four Quartz Crystal Clocks
There are four vibrators, the world’s exactest clocks; and these quartz time-pieces that tell time intervals to other clocks, these worksless clocks work well: and all four, independently the same […]
Poetry
Summer 1940
A Glass-Ribbed Nest
For authorities whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries? Writers entrapped by teatime fame and by commuters’ comforts? Not for these the paper nautilus constructs her thin glass shell. Giving her […]
Poetry
Summer 1940
What Are Years?
What is our innocence, what is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe. And whence is courage: the unanswered question, the resolute doubt,— dumbly calling, deafly listening—that in misfortune, […]
Poetry
Winter 1954
The Man and the Serpent
The man had seen the coil move And said: “Hah, fiend, I’m one of whom the world will approve For saving mankind from a curse!” Whereupon the creature who had […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1954
Transformations
The Fables Of La Fontaine translated by Marianne Moore. The Viking Press. $5.00.A Summoning Of Stones by Anthony Hecht. Macmillan. $2.50. A translation of La Fontaine’s Fables by Miss […]
Poetry
Winter 1954
The Cat and the Mouse
To His Grace the Duke of Burgundy, who requested of M. de La Fontaine a Fable to be called “THE CAT AND THE MOUSE” Desiring to show a young prince […]
A Glass-Ribbed Nest
From The Kenyon Review, Summer 1940, Vol. II, No. 3. For authorities whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries? Writers entrapped by teatime fame and by commuters’ comforts? Not for these […]