Editing Nicholas Moore (section)

==Biography==
Moore was born in [[Cambridge]], England, the elder child of the philosopher [[G. E. Moore]] and Dorothy Ely.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=012-moor_3&cid=0&kw=moore%20g#0 | title = The Papers of George Edward Moore (1873–1958) Philosopher | access-date = 21 January 2014 | publisher = The National Archives}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia | url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/391567/Nicholas-Moore | title=Nicholas Moore (British poet) | encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] | access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref> His paternal uncle was the poet, artist and critic [[Thomas Sturge Moore]], his maternal grandfather was [[OUP]] editor and author [[Herbert Strang|George Herbert Ely]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Father in law G. H. ("Gaffer") Ely and his wife Margaret|url=http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0012%2FMS%20Add.8330%204%2F13|website=George Edward Moore: Personal Papers and Correspondence|publisher=Cambridge University Library|access-date=2 August 2015}}</ref> and his brother was the composer Timothy Moore (1922–2003).<ref>{{cite news | first = Nicholas | last = Marshal | title = Obituaries: Timothy Moore – Composer and eccentric, his influences included madrigals and jazz | date = 10 March 2003 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/mar/10/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1 | work = [[The Guardian]] | access-date = 21 January 2014}}</ref>

He was educated at the [[Dragon School]] in [[Oxford]], [[Leighton Park School]] in [[Reading, Berkshire|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]].<ref name=reading>{{cite web | url = http://www.reading.ac.uk/adlib/Details/archiveSpecial/110014362 | title = Nicholas Moore Collection | access-date = 21 January 2014 | last = Moore | first = Nicholas | publisher = University of Reading}}</ref>

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]].<ref name=reading/> In the meantime he had registered as a [[conscientious objector]].<ref name=ford/>

''The Glass Tower'', a selected poems collection from 1944, appeared with illustrations by the young [[Lucian Freud]]. In 1945 he edited ''The PL Book of Modern American Short Stories'', and won Contemporary Poetry's Patron Prize (judged that year by [[W. H. Auden]]) for ''Girl with a Wine Glass''. In 1947 he won the [[Harriet Monroe]] Memorial Prize for ''Girls and Birds'' and various other poems.<ref name="Ubuweb"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Tolley|first1=A. Trevor|title=The Poetry of the Forties|date=1985|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9780719017087|pages=110–111|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZB4NAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA111|access-date=27 November 2015}}</ref>

Later Moore encountered difficulty in publishing; he was in the unusual position for a British poet of having a higher reputation in the United States. His association with the "romantics" of the 1940s was, in fact, rather an inaccurate reflection of his style.<ref name=sinclair>{{cite book | last1 = Sinclair | first1 = Ian | authorlink1 = Ian Sinclair| title = Downriver | publisher = Penguin UK | year = 2004 | location = London | isbn = 9780-141906157}}</ref>

In the 1950s he worked as a horticulturist, writing a book ''The Tall Bearded Iris'' (1956). In 1968 he entered 31 separate pseudonymous translations of a single [[Baudelaire]] poem, in a competition for the ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|Sunday Times]]'', run by [[George Steiner]].<ref name=ford>{{cite book |last1=Ford |first1=Mark |authorlink1=Mark Ford (poet) |editor1-last=Eeckhout |editor1-first=B. |editor2-last=Ragg |editor2-first=E. |title=Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic |date=2008 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=London |isbn=978-1-349-35850-2 |pages=165–185 |chapter=Nicholas Moore, Stevens and the Fortune Press|doi=10.1057/9780230583849_12 }}</ref> Each translation focused on a different element of the poem: rhyme, pattern, tropes, symbolism, etc. producing vastly different results, to illustrate the inadequacies and [[Lacuna (linguistics)|lacunae]] produced in translation.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Lloyd | first1 = Rosemary | title = Baudelaire's World | publisher = Cornell University Press | year = 2002 | location = Ithaca, New York | isbn = 978-0-8014-4026-7}}</ref> This work was published in 1973 as ''Spleen'';<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Moore | first1 = Nicholas | title = Spleen: thirty-one versions of Baudelaire's Je suis comme le roi | publisher = The Menard Press/The Blacksuede Boot Press | year = 1973 | location = London | isbn = 978-0951375303}}</ref> it is also available online.<ref name=sorrell>{{cite journal | title = On Nicholas Moore | journal = The Fortnightly Review | date = 25 January 2012 | first = Martin | last = Sorrell| url = http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2012/01/pomenvylope-nicholas-moore/ | access-date = 25 January 2014}}</ref><ref name="Ubuweb">{{cite web |url=http://www.ubu.com/ubu/moore_spleen.html | title=Ubu Editions: Nicholas Moore — Spleen, 31 Translations of Je suis commme le roi |work=Moore | access-date=19 September 2011}}</ref>

''Longings of the Acrobats'', a selected poems volume, was edited by [[Peter Riley]] and published in 1990 by [[Carcanet Press]]. An interview with Riley concerning Moore's rediscovery and later years appears as a documentary element within the "Guilty River" chapter of [[Iain Sinclair]]'s novel ''Downriver''. According to Riley, Moore was extremely prolific and left behind many unpublished poems. An example of one of Moore's "pomenvylopes" – idiosyncratic documents consisting of poems and comments typed onto envelopes and posted to friends and acquaintances – appears online at ''[[The Fortnightly Review]]''.<ref name=sorrell/><ref name=sinclair/>

His ''Selected Poems'' was published by Shoestring Press in 2014.<ref name="pf">{{cite web |title=Nicholas Moore |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nicholas-moore |website=Poetry Foundation |access-date=13 May 2020 |location=Chicago, IL}}</ref>