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Burt, Stephen. An introduction to Marianne Moore. Slate, Nov. 2003
Carson, Luke. "Republicanism and Leisure in Marianne Moore's Depression" [Great Depression]. First page of article only. Modern Language Quarterly 2002 63(3)
Costello, Bonnie, ed. A review of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (Knopf, 1997). "'The handkerchiefs almost frighten us by their perfection.' Who but Marianne Moore could possibly have written this?" Reviewed by Kay Ryan in The Boston Review, Summer 1998. Another review by Frank Kermode in The London Review of Books, Vol. 20 No. 8 (4/16/98)
Costello, Bonnie. "Tribute: Marianne Moore." Talk for the Poetry Society of America, at the Boston Public Library, November 6, 1997
Diehl, Joanne Feit. "Marianne Moore: Toward an engendered sublime," in Women Poets and the American Sublime: Women Poets and the American Sublime (Indiana Univ. Press, 1990) Publisher's web site. At Google Books
Fast, Robin Riley. "Moore, Bishop, and Oliver: thinking back, re-seeking the sea." Poems by Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Mary Oliver are explored in a kind of feminist-Bloomian look at the younger woman poet seeking out her poetic mothers. Twentieth Century Literature, 9/22/93
Leavell, Linda. "Marianne Moore, the James family, and the politics of celibacy." Explores gender studies and Marianne Moore. Leavell contends that "Marianne Moore's successive relationships with these three Jameses [Henry James, William James, and Peggy James] demonstrate the evolution of her artistic--and more elusive personal--identity at two critical periods." Twentieth Century Literature, Summer, 2003
Reddy, Srikanth. "'To Explain Grace Requires a Curious Hand': Marianne Moore's Interdisciplinary Digressions." Compared to Jonathan Swift, for whom digression indicated an intellectual lack of order, Marianne Moore's poetic of digression is emblematic of early twentieth century cosmopolitan life. In American Literature 77(3): 451-481 (2005) (removed)
Schulman, Grace, ed. A review of The Poems Of Marianne Moore, edited by Grace Schulman, Jan. 4, 2004, reviewed in the NYTimes by Brad Leithauser
Schulze, Robin G. "Marianne Moore's 'Imperious Ox, Imperial Dish' and The Poetry Of The Natural World," Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1998
White, Heather Cass. "Morals, Manners, and 'Marriage': Marianne Moore's Art of Conversation," Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 1999
Wilson, Peter. A substantial introduction to Marianne Moore from the Literary Encyclopedia
Excerpts from reputable critical articles on poems by Marianne Moore: On "Poetry," On "The Fish," On "Sojourn in the Whale," On "A Grave," On "Silence," On "Marriage," On "An Octopus," On "No Swan So Fine," On "The Pangolin," On "Bird-Witted," On "The Paper Nautilus," On "Spenser's Ireland," On "Peter," On "An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish," On "Marriage" and "An Octopus." Modern American Poetry web site (Univ. of Illinois)
Short biography of Marianne Moore from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
A teacher's guide to Marianne Moore, from Heath publishers
A web site on teaching Marianne Moore from the Annenberg/PBS project "American Passages"
A chronology for Marianne Moore and some notes on her work, from Professor Susan Tichy
Marianne Moore's acceptance speech on receiving the 1952 National Book Award for her Collected Poems
The painting "Marianne Moore and her mother" by artist Marguerite Zorach, at the Smithsonian
A Yale Library exhibition documents the influence of Oriental aesthetics on American modernists including Marianne Moore and others
Professor Joseph Conte's syllabus for English 633 Poetic Texture: The Smooth and the Striated in Postmodern Poetry, Fall 2001
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