M: One Thousand Autobiographical Sonnets. By Merrill Moore. Harcourt Brace and Co. $5.00
Dr. Merrill Moore’s variant on the sonnet has pleased many choice readers. One of them is Dr. William Carlos Williams, who considers that it has conferred new life upon a form that was dead because it had been construed mechanically, by dull poets. And I have just now been reading a newspaper piece by an editor of obvious literary intelligence who brings a serious argument to the conclusion that Dr. Moore is probably the greatest of living poets.
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