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Marianne Moore
1887–1972
Born St. Louis, Missouri
Poet Marianne Moore's manifesto "Poetry" (1919) begins: "I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle." Moore's keenly observed descriptions of humans and animals appear in early poems such as "A Jelly-Fish," published in 1909, when she was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr College.
Moore was among the few early twentieth-century women poets to gain popular acceptance -- a testament both to the precise dynamism of her modernist verse as well as to her male peers' bias. In 1952, her Collected Poems (1951) won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Gaston Lachaise (1882–1935)
Bronze, 1974, cast after 1924 original |