Nicholas Moore | Victorian Era, Poetry, Satire

Nicholas Moore (born Nov. 16, 1918, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.—died 1986) was one of many “New Apocalypse” English poets of the Forties who reacted towards the preoccupation with social and political problems with the Thirties by turning towards romanticism.

The son of G.E. Moore, classicist and Cambridge thinker, he printed an essential literary evaluate, Seven (1938–40), whereas a Cambridge undergraduate and was a conscientious objector throughout World War II. Most of his verse was printed within the conflict years: The Island and the Cattle and A Want in Season (each 1941), The Cabaret, the Dancer, the Gentleman (1942), and The Glass Tower (1944). After modifying poetry magazines in London, he wrote little till Decision and Id appeared in a restricted version in 1970. Spleen (1973) introduced 30 variations on a poem by Charles Baudelaire. Longings of the Acrobats (1990), a choice of his poetry, was printed posthumously.