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{{Short description|British poet, author and artist}}
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{{Use British English|date=September 2012}}
{{other use|Thomas Sturge (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Thomas Sturge Moore
| image = Thomas Sturge Moore.jpg
| caption = Thomas Sturge Moore by [[George Charles Beresford]], 1903
| birth_date = 4 March 1870
| birth_place = 3 Wellington Square, Hastings, East Sussex
| death_date = 18 July 1944
| death_place = St Andrews Cottage, [[Clewer]], [[Windsor, Berkshire]]
| resting_place = Ashes scattered near [[Petersfield, Hampshire]]
| occupation = Poet, writer and artist
| education = [[Dulwich College]] [[Croydon College#Croydon School of Art|Croydon School of Art]] [[Lambeth School of Art]]
| genre = [[Georgian Poetry]] [[Noh drama]] [[Art nouveau]] [[Art deco]]
| spouse = Marie Appia (1872–1956)
| children = Daniel Sturge-Moore (1908–1980) Riette Sturge-Moore (1907–1995)
| relatives = [[G.E. Moore]] (brother) [[Nicholas Moore]] (nephew)
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[[File:Thomas Sturge Moore, by Charles Shannon.jpg| thumb|Thomas Sturge Moore, portrait by [[Charles Haslewood Shannon|Charles Shannon]], c. 1897, a.k.a. ''The Man with a Yellow Glove'']]
'''Thomas Sturge Moore''' (4 March 1870 – 18 July 1944) was a British poet, author and artist.

==Biography==
Sturge Moore was born at 3 Wellington Square, Hastings, East Sussex, on 4 March 1870 and educated at [[Dulwich College]], the [[Croydon College#Croydon School of Art|Croydon School of Art]] and [[Lambeth School of Art]].<ref name=hodges/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArchive&search=IN=MS978 |title=Thomas Sturge Moore Papers |accessdate=11 February 2014 |last=Moore |first=Thomas Sturge |work=Archives & Manuscripts |publisher=Senate House Library, University of London}}</ref> In Lambeth he studied under the wood-engraver [[Charles Roberts (wood-engraver)|Charles Roberts]]. He was a long-term friend and correspondent of [[W. B. Yeats]], who was to describe him as "one of the most exquisite poets writing in England". He was also a playwright, writing a ''[[Medea]]'' influenced by Yeats' drama and the Japanese [[Noh]] style. As a wood-engraver and artist he designed the covers for poetry editions of Yeats and others, as well as illustrating books for the Vale Press of Charles Ricketts.<ref name=Double>Untermeyer, Louis, ''Modern British Poetry'', Doubleday and Page & Co, 1920</ref><ref name=gwynn>{{cite book|last1=Gwynn|first1=Frederick L.|title=Sturge Moore and the Life of Art|date=1951|publisher=University of Kansas Press|location=Lawrence, Kansas|url=https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/6344/upk.sturge_moore.pdf|accessdate=15 April 2018}}</ref><ref>Piggott, Jan. “The Book-Covers of Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944) for William Butler Yeats (1865–1939).” ''The British Art Journal'' 20, no. 2 (2019): 12–21.</ref>
He was a prolific poet and his subjects included morality, art and the spirit writing in a 'severely classical tone', according to poet/critic [[Yvor Winters]].<ref name=Double/> His first pamphlet, ''Two Poems'', was printed privately in 1893 and his first book of verse, ''The Vinedresser'', was published in 1899. His love for poetry led him to become an active member of the [[Poetry Society|Poetry Recital Society]].

In 1901, Moore, with Yeats, [[Laurence Binyon]], [[Charles Ricketts]], and Ethel and [[Sybil Pye]], formed the Literary Theatre Club. Moore's first (of 31) play to be produced, a copyright reading of ''Aphrodite against Artemis'', was the first production staged by the club, at the Dalston Theatre on 30 July 1901. Yeats described the play as "powerful with a beautiful constrained passion."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Schuchard|first1=Ronald|title=The Last Minstrels : Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts|date=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780191528064|pages=41–48|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4wxUNTepUVEC&pg=PA41&lpg|accessdate=14 October 2014}}</ref>

In 1913 Moore nominated [[Rabindranath Tagore]] the Indian poet for the Nobel Prize in literature.

Moore received a [[Pensions in the United Kingdom#Civil List pensions|civil list pension]] of £75 per annum in 1920 in recognition of his contribution to literature. In 1930 he was nominated as one of seven candidates for the position of [[Poet Laureate]]. He suffered from chronic ill health, suffering a series of heart attacks in 1942 and 1943, and died on 18 July 1944 at a convalescent home, St Andrews Cottage in [[Clewer]], [[Windsor, Berkshire]], from a kidney infection following a prostate operation.<ref name=gwynn/><ref>{{cite book |last=Public Records Office |title= England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 |chapter=1944 |location=Kew, Surrey |publisher=The National Archives |page=756 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/58827/58827?back=,35090 |title=Moore, Thomas Sturge |last=Kelly |first=John |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher= Oxford University Press |accessdate=8 June 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Bowers, Jr.|first1=William Edgar|authorlink1=Edgar Bowers|title=The Poetry of Sturge Moore|date=1953|publisher=Dept. of English, Stanford University|location=Stanford, CA|page=iv}}</ref>

He was cremated at [[Woking]].<ref name=gwynn/> His ashes were scattered near [[Petersfield]] in August 1953.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Aggett|first1=Viv|title=Sturge Moore family papers (reference MS1159)|url=http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/MS1159.pdf|website=Senate House Library|publisher=University of London|accessdate=15 April 2018|page=4}}</ref>

==Family==
Sturge Moore adopted the use of his middle name 'Sturge' (his mother's family name) as a way of avoiding confusion with the poet [[Thomas Moore]].<ref name=gwynn/>

On 26 November 1903 Moore married Marie Appia, niece of [[Louis Appia]], a founder of the [[International Committee of the Red Cross]], and cousin of the Swiss stage designer [[Adolphe Appia]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Yeats|first1=W.B.|authorlink1=W. B. Yeats|editor1-last=Kelly|editor1-first=John|editor2-last=Schuchard|editor2-first=Ronald|title=The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume IV, 1905-1907 |date=1986 |publisher=OUP|location=Oxford|isbn=9780198126843|page=398|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lyESDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA398|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref> They had two children: Daniel Sturge-Moore, journalist and broadcaster; and Henriette Sturge-Moore, prominent theatre designer, teacher and interior decorator.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brett|first1=Charles Edward Bainbridge|authorlink1=Charles Brett|title=Long shadows cast before: nine lives in Ulster, 1625-1977|date=1978|publisher=J. Bartholomew|location=Edinburgh|isbn=9780702810589|page=45|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B3gfAAAAMAAJ&q|accessdate=14 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Dunlop|first1=Frank|title=Obituary: Riette Sturge Moore |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary--riette-sturge-moore-1579166.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary--riette-sturge-moore-1579166.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|accessdate=14 October 2014|work=[[The Independent]]|date=24 October 1995|location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Legge|first1=Silvia|title=Affectionate Cousins: T. Sturge Moore and Marie Appia|date=1980|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780192117618}}</ref>

Moore was the brother of the [[Bloomsbury Group#Philosophy and ethics|Bloomsbury philosopher]] [[George Edward Moore]], one of the founders of the [[analytic philosophy|Analytic]] tradition in philosophy, and uncle of [[Nicholas Moore]], [[New Apocalyptics]] poet of the 1940s, and of the composer Timothy Moore.<ref name=hodges>Hodges, S, (1981), ''God's Gift: A Living History of Dulwich College'', pp. 87-88 (Heinemann: London)</ref><ref name=gwynn/><ref>{{cite news |first=Nicholas |last=Marshall |title=Timothy Moore |date=10 March 2003 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/mar/10/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1 |work=The Guardian |accessdate=14 March 2014}}</ref>

==Works==
*''Two Poems'', 1893
*''The Vinedresser and Other Poems'', 1899
*''The Centaur and the Bacchant. From the French by Maurice de Guerin'', 1899
*''Altdorfer'', 1900
*''Aphrodite Against Artemis'', 1901 (play)
*''Absalom'', 1903 (poems)
*''Danäe'', 1903 (poems)
*''Durer'', 1904
*''The Little School'', 1905 (poems)
*''Poems'', 1906
*''Correggio'', 1906
*''Art and Life (Flaubert and Blake)'', 1910
*''Mariamne'', 1911 (poems)
*''A Sicilian Idyll and Judith: A Conflict'', 1911 (play)
*''The Sea is Kind'', 1914 (collection of 69 poems)
*''The Wilderness,'' 1915 (poetic drama)
*''Medea'', 1920 (play)
*''Tragic Mothers: Medea, Niobe, Tyrfing'', 1920 (play)
*''Mystery and Tragedy: Two Dramatic Poems'', 1930 (play)
*''Nine Poems'', 1930
*''Wind's Work'' (poem)

==See also==
* [[Vienna Café]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* [http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6344 "Sturge Moore and the Life of Art"] by Frederick L. Gwynn (University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 1951). 159 pages, includes "A Bibliography of Sturge Moore." Open access full-text PDF file available from the [[University of Kansas]].
* [http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArchive&search=IN=MS978 Papers of Thomas Sturge Moore in Senate House Library, University of London]
* {{Gutenberg author |id=Moore,+T.+Sturge+(Thomas+Sturge)}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Thomas Sturge Moore |sopt=t}}
*[https://www.greatwartheatre.org.uk/db/script/1010/ ''The Wilderness'' (1915) at Great War Theatre]
*[https://rose.library.emory.edu/ Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library], Emory University: [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8zpcs T. Sturge Moore collection, 1928-1934]

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