MOORE, NICHOLAS

born Nov. 16, 1918, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng. one of the New Apocalypse English poets of the 1940s who reacted against the preoccupation with social and political issues of the 1930s by turning toward romanticism. The son of G.E. Moore, classicist and Cambridge philosopher, young Moore published an important literary review, Seven (193840), while a Cambridge undergraduate and was a conscientious objector during World War II. Most of his verse was published in the war years: The Island and the Cattle and A Wish in Season (both 1941), The Cabaret, the Dancer, the Gentleman (1942), and The Glass Tower (1944). Recollections of the Gala: Selected Poems, 19431948 appeared in 1950. After editing poetry magazines in London, he became a horticulturist and wrote little until an illness in 1963 provided the leisure for it. Resolution and Identity appeared in a limited edition in 1970. Spleen (1975) presented 30 variations on a poem by Charles Baudelaire.