Victoria Bazin is a senior lecturer at the Northumbria University, UK

'Victoria Bazin brings an important new perspective to Moore studies by positioning her dialectically in relation to pragmatism, Walter Benjamin's theories of consumerism and history, and the contradictions of modernity for women, demonstrating that Moore connects poetry to the mundane and habitual while engaging in nuanced feminist analysis of her peer poets and philosophers and of newly emerging mass consumerism. This is a book every student and scholar of Moore will want to read.' Cristanne Miller, Edward H. Butler Professor of English.University of Buffalo, USA '... this is an invaluable study of Moore’s poetry and Bazin sets a new agenda for thinking about the writer and her work.' Literature and History

• Contents: Introduction; Modernity, poetry and pragmatism; Critical constructions of 'Miss Moore': the poetics of purity; Instruments of dissection: syllabic verse in the age of mechanical destruction; 'Just looking': the aesthetics of display; 'A hybrid method of composition': montage and flexible forms of faith; 'Technical mastery' and imperial power: cultivating a poetic wilderness; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Victoria Bazin is a senior lecturer at the Northumbria University, UK

'Victoria Bazin brings an important new perspective to Moore studies by positioning her dialectically in relation to pragmatism, Walter Benjamin's theories of consumerism and history, and the contradictions of modernity for women, demonstrating that Moore connects poetry to the mundane and habitual while engaging in nuanced feminist analysis of her peer poets and philosophers and of newly emerging mass consumerism. This is a book every student and scholar of Moore will want to read.' Cristanne Miller, Edward H. Butler Professor of English.University of Buffalo, USA '... this is an invaluable study of Moore’s poetry and Bazin sets a new agenda for thinking about the writer and her work.' Literature and History

• Contents: Introduction; Modernity, poetry and pragmatism; Critical constructions of 'Miss Moore': the poetics of purity; Instruments of dissection: syllabic verse in the age of mechanical destruction; 'Just looking': the aesthetics of display; 'A hybrid method of composition': montage and flexible forms of faith; 'Technical mastery' and imperial power: cultivating a poetic wilderness; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Victoria Bazin is a senior lecturer at the Northumbria University, UK

'Victoria Bazin brings an important new perspective to Moore studies by positioning her dialectically in relation to pragmatism, Walter Benjamin's theories of consumerism and history, and the contradictions of modernity for women, demonstrating that Moore connects poetry to the mundane and habitual while engaging in nuanced feminist analysis of her peer poets and philosophers and of newly emerging mass consumerism. This is a book every student and scholar of Moore will want to read.' Cristanne Miller, Edward H. Butler Professor of English.University of Buffalo, USA '... this is an invaluable study of Moore’s poetry and Bazin sets a new agenda for thinking about the writer and her work.' Literature and History

• Contents: Introduction; Modernity, poetry and pragmatism; Critical constructions of 'Miss Moore': the poetics of purity; Instruments of dissection: syllabic verse in the age of mechanical destruction; 'Just looking': the aesthetics of display; 'A hybrid method of composition': montage and flexible forms of faith; 'Technical mastery' and imperial power: cultivating a poetic wilderness; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.