Nicholas Moore
| Nicholas Moore | |
|---|---|
| Born |
16 November 1918 Cambridge, England |
| Died | 26 January 1986 (aged 67) St Mary Cray, Kent, England |
| Pen name | Guy Kelly (1945), Romeo Anschilo (1968) |
| Occupation | Poet, publisher |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | B.A. |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Literary movement | New Apocalyptics |
| Notable awards | Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, Contemporary Poetry's Patron Prize |
| Spouse | Priscilla Craig (1940-1948); Shirley Putnam (1953- ) |
| Children | Juliet Moore, Peregrine Moore. |
| Relatives | G. E. Moore (father), Dorothy Ely (mother), Timothy Moore (brother), Thomas Sturge Moore (uncle), George Herbert Ely (grandfather) |
Nicholas Moore (16 November 1918 – 26 January 1986) was an English poet, associated with the New Apocalyptics in the 1940s, whose reputation stood as high as Dylan Thomas’s. He later dropped out of the literary world.
Moore was born in Cambridge, England, the elder child of the philosopher G. E. Moore and Dorothy Ely. His paternal uncle was the poet, artist and critic Thomas Sturge Moore, his maternal grandfather was OUP editor and author George Herbert Ely and his brother was the composer Timothy Moore (1922-2003).
He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Leighton Park School in Reading, the University of St Andrews, and Trinity College, Cambridge. Moore was editor and co-founder of a literary review, Seven (1938–40), while still an undergraduate. Seven, Magazine of People's Writing, had a complex later history: Moore edited it with John Goodland; it later appeared edited by Gordon Cruikshank, and then by Sydney D. Tremayne, after Randall Swingler bought it in 1941 from Philip O'Connor.
While in Cambridge Moore became closely involved with literary London, in particular Tambimuttu. He published pamphlets under the Poetry London imprint in 1941 (of George Scurfield, G. S. Fraser, Anne Ridler and his own work). This led to Moore becoming Tambimuttu's assistant. Moore later worked for the Grey Walls Press. In the meantime he had registered as a conscientious objector.
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