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Thomas Sturge Moore
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Poet, author, playwright and artist
Other names
T. Sturge Moore
Place of birth
Place of death
Windsor
About
Thomas Sturge Moore was a poet, author, playwright, wood-engraver and critic. Moore was the brother of the Bloomsbury philosopher G. E. Moore. He was good friends with William Butler Yeats, to whom he was introduced by Laurence Binyon in 1899.
Moore helped correct English translations of Rabindranath Tagore and Purohit Swami, and was one of the people who nominated Tagore for the Nobel Prize. Moore's wife, Marie Sturge Moore, translated Tagore's The Crescent Moon into French, which appeared in 1924 under the title La jeune lune. After having introduced Purohit Swami to Yeats, Moore fell out with the Swami over his work on correcting the Swami's English. When Purohit Swami offered Moore £10 as part-payment for his work, Moore became offended by the sum, not expecting any payment and rather expecting a share of the royalties. Moore was also friends with the Indian artist and engraver Mukul Dey, who had taught at Tagore's Santiniketan and exhibited at Wembley in 1924.
Laurence Binyon, Katherine Bradley, Edith Emma Cooper, Mukul Dey, Aldous Huxley, Harold Monro, Marie Sturge Moore (wife), G. E. Moore (brother), George Russell (AE), Ranjee G. Shahani, Purohit Swami, Rabindranath Tagore, William Butler Yeats.
Altdorfer (London: At the sign of the unicorn, 1900)
Absalom (London: Unicorn Press, 1903)
The Centaur's Booty (London: Duckworth, 1903)
Art and Life (London: Methuen, 1910)
Tragic Mothers (London: G. Richards, 1920)
The Powers of the Air (London: G. Richards, 1920)
Judas (London: G. Richards, 1923)
Armour for Aphrodite (London: Cayme Press, 1929)
Mystery and Tragedy (London: Cayme Press, 1930)
The Poems of T. Sturge Moore, 4 vols (London: Macmillan, 1931–3)
The Unknown Known and a Dozen Odd Poems (London: Martin Secker for Richards Press, 1939)
(ed. with D. C. Moore) Works and Days: From the Journal of Michael Field (London: John Murray, 1933)
Bridge, Ursula (ed.) W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence, 1901–1937 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953)
Gwynn, Frederick L., Sturge Moore and the Life of Art (London: Richards Press, 1952)
Kelly, John, ‘Moore, Thomas Sturge (1870–1944)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/58827]
Legge, Sylvia, Affectionate Cousins: T. Sturge Moore and Marie Appia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980)
Mukherjee, Sumita, 'Thomas Sturge Moore and His Indian Friendships in London,' English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 56.1 (2013), pp. 64–82
Letters from Purohit Swami, Add MS 45732, Manuscript Collection, British Library, St Pancras
Letters to Purohit Swami, Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi
Thomas Sturge Moore Papers, MS978, Senate House Library, University of London
Letters to Rabindranath Tagore, Visva Bharati Archives, Santiniketan
Image credit
Thomas Sturge Moore by George Charles Beresford, sepia-toned platinotype, 14 October 1903, NPG x21406
© National Portrait Gallery, London, Creative Commons, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
