Marianne Moore

Marianne Craig Moore (1887–1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor known for her formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit. She served as acting editor of The Dial literary magazine from 1925 to 1929 and was a prominent figure in the Imagist movement. Her 1951 Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Bollingen Prize.