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Also Known As Marianne Craig Moore
Born November 15, 1887 • St. Louis • Missouri • (Birthday in 2 days)
Died February 5, 1972 (aged 84) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors National Book Award • Pulitzer Prize • Bollingen Prize (1951)
Notable Works “Observations” • “Poetry”

Photos

Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
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Wallace Stevens, 1952
Wallace Stevens
American poet
William Carlos Williams, wearing glasses and a bow tie, sits indoors holding a book with bookshelves and cabinets in the background, circa 1955.
William Carlos Williams
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
American poet
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Archibald MacLeish
American author, educator, and public official
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
American poet
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Richard Wilbur
American poet
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Theodore Roethke
American poet
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet
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Robert Hass
American poet and translator
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
American poet
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
American poet
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William Meredith
American poet
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Lisel Mueller
German-American poet
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet

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