Illusion Is More Precise Than Precision: The Poetry of Marianne Moore

by Darlene E. Erickson

Erickson examines the work of Marianne Moore in order to provide some consistently successful strategies for understanding her poetry

In 1935, T.S. Eliot wrote that Marianne Moore's poems "form part of the small body of durable poetry written in our time." In this comprehensive critical study of the American poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) and her work, Erickson amply justifies Eliot's praise, demonstrating the poet's ability to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081730570X
• ISBN13: 9780817305703
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"