McLane 89: "It is remarkable that one of the best poems of the twentieth century, Moore's 'Marriage,' is apparently so little read. The best poem on marriage since, perhaps, Paradise Lost, to which it is enormously and confidently indebted."
93: "She offers a forensic essay: gingerly, carefully, judiciously and mock-judiciously, as if committed to laying out all aspects of the case. She offers a foresnic essay--an assay, an attempt, a testing; it is a sifting of evidence, drawn from a vast cultural inheritance here mobilized with a sorrowing wit."