Volume 44, Number 7 · April 24, 1997
Becoming Marianne Moore
By James Fenton
Something held women back when it came to the writing of poetry, and since whatever it was that held them back failed to hold women back from writing novels, we must suppose that the inhibition had something, at least, to do with the antiquity and prestige of the art. Certainly the social disadvantages under which women labored will not, taken alone, explain the conundrum away. I follow Germaine Greer in this when she writes: 'Homer and Milton were blind; can we claim that being female is a worse handicap than being blind?' And when she says that
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