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Two Poets
Greenberg, Clement | December 13, 1941 issue

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This article literally criticizes the books ""What Are Years," by Marianne Moore and "Selected Poems," by George Barker. Of these two poets one has an excess of energy, the other a deficiency of it. It is not altogether because the one is young and on his way and the other arrived and settled. Two quite different national tendencies in contemporary English poetry cross here. George Barker's energy stems not only from his youth but from a tradition, while Moore starts almost from scratch. She is one of that first generation of American modernist poets who in the teens and twenties went into the wilderness and with the aid only of a few volumes of French poetry built their Tower of Babel from the ground up.

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WHAT Are Years (Book); SELECTED Poems (Book); BOOKS & reading; CRITICISM; LITERATURE; BARKER, George; MOORE, Marianne, 1887-1972
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