Moore had an older brother, John Warner Moore. ... During these years Moore was reading much avant-garde poetry and criticism and was beginning to publish subjective reviews and critical essays. In 1916 Moore moved with her mother from Carlisle to Chatham, New Jersey, to help keep house for her brother, by then a Yale University graduate and a Presbyterian minister. ... And "An Octopus," one of Moore's most splendid long poems, is a scientifically accurate, highly colored word picture, with annotated quotations, of Mount Rainier, in Washington State, which she had climbed in 1920 with ...

• Word Count: 871
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School