William Robert Moses (1911–2001) was an American poet known for his books Identities, Passage, Double View, Memoir, Edges, Tu Fu Poems, and other works.
[2] Moses earned his PhD in English at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, where he studied under poet John Crowe Ransom.
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[10] Moses was published in the New Directions anthology Five Young American Poets in 1940, his first book, alongside John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Mary Barnard and George Marion O'Donnell.
[3] His poetry was received rather coolly by reviewers who talk of "limp regularity of the lines... little striving to concentrate by means of metaphor, to underscore by a change of cadence, or to thrust home by climax..."[11] and "baffling... unrelieved particularity in verse...
"[12] His poem "Further Document on the Human Brain" [13] was commented on by poet Allen Tate in Trial Balances: An Anthology Of New Poetry.