Marianne moore (1887- 1972), an American modernist poetess, was born in kirkwood, Missouri, USA, and 1909 graduated from Brynmore College. Moore lived in new york for most of his life. At first, he was a librarian. 19 15 began to publish poetry full-time, and 1952 won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Dickinson, Moore and Bishop are recognized as the three great American poetesses. Moore's poetry structure is like a delicate mosaic, which emphasizes accuracy, wit and intellectuality and is often good at satire.
The main collections of poems are: Poems (1921); Observation (1924); Selected poems (1935); What is the year (1941); However (despite this,1944); Poetry and Criticism (1965); The whole poem (1967).