Abstract
Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop claimed not to understand the critical inclination to compare them in reviews and articles, and on many occasions dismissed anything more than juvenile and superficial resemblances. Reporting one such conversation with a critic, Moore wrote to Bishop (June 21, 1959): You have sometimes asked what I thought, Elizabeth; but even if you ever took my advice, did you ever get to sound like me? or I like you? You sound like Lope de Vega and I sound like Jacob Abbot or Peter Rabbit.1
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