Who is Marianne Moore from The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 and what is their importance?

Marianne Moore was an American poet, who became famous for her extensive body of works as well as her mentorship to poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, and Allen Ginsberg. Moore attended Bryn Mawr College and Carlisle Commercial College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She also spent time teaching at the Carlisle Indian School before moving to New York in 1921.

She traveled through Europe prior to WWI, during which time, she made the acquaintance of many famous writers such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams. After the war, she returned to New York, where she served as the editor of the literary journal, The Dial.

Moore's first book, Poems, was published by H.D., a contemporary, without the poet's knowledge. Her later work earned her a number of prestigious awards, which included the Helen Haire Levinson Prize, the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize, which was awarded for Moore's most popular work, Collected Poems of 1951.