An Enabling Humility: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Uses of Tradition

by Jeredith Merrin

"A wise, informed and eloquent book...Her rigorous, scholarly and critical account challenges many of our assumptions about influence in women writers and, more broadly, about our modernist heritage."
Bonnie Costello, Boston University

"With an acute poet's attention, Jeredith Merrin traces the intricate links between feminism and tradition, history and creation, work and meaning, in the poetry of Moore and Bishop."
Robert Pinksy, poet

185 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1990