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

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"This study illuminates the features that make Marianne Moore’s voice one of the most significant and innovative in twentieth-century American literature and a touchstone of literary modernism. Erickson examines closely the texts of Moore’s poems themselves, exploring Moore’s obsession with time, her preoccupation with the visual, her interest in the forms of Hebrew verse, and her ‘susceptibility to happiness’ – an outlook often at odds with the twentieth century’s fascination with the ‘romance of failure’"--Page 4 of cover