MOORE, Thomas Sturge

Thomas Sturge Moore British 1870-1944

English poet, playwright, and designer Thomas Sturge Moore was born in Hastings, Sussex. He came from a intellectual family, his brother was G.E. Moore, the philosopher, his nephew was Nicholas Moore.

Moore was educated at Dulwich College from 1879 to 1884, but due to his ill health he fell behind and enrolled in the Croydon Art School, where he met the artist Charles Shannon. He then transferred to the Lambeth School of Art, where he became a pupil of Shannon’s partner, Charles Ricketts, who taught him wood engraving.

The couple introduced Moore to the London Art world and the Vale Press that Ricketts founded in 1894. Moore contributed to the press in many ways including translating and editing.

His early books include Two Poems (1893) and The Vinedresser and Other Poems (1899), a collection that impressed William Butler Yeats. Moore and Yeats met in 1899 and became life long friends.

Moore married Marie Appia in 1903; she would go on to translate Rabindranath Tagore’s The Crescent Moon into French, as La Jeune Lune (1924). . Around this time Moore was involved in several societies, including the Society of Twelve, a group of wood engravers and lithographers in 1904; the Royal Society of Literature in 1911, and the Poetry Society in 1912. He had several articles and books published including Art and Life (1910), The Powers of the Air (1920), and Armour for Aphrodite (1929). Moore’s poems were published in four volumes as The Poems of T. Sturge Moore.

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