Nicholas Moore (November 16th 1918 - 1986) was a poet English, associated with the New Apocalyptics in the Années 1940. Later, it gave up the literary world.

Moore is born with Cambridge; his/her father is the philosopher G.E. Moore. He makes his studies with the School Dragon of Oxford, in Leighton Park School with Reading, with the University off St Andrews, and with the Trinity College of Cambridge. Moore publishes a literary criticism, Seven (1938-1940), whereas it is still student ( Seven, Magazine off People' S Writing , knows a complex history: first of all, it is published by Nicholas Moore and John Goodland; later, Gordon Cruikshank is the editor, and then Sydney D. Tremayne, after Randall Swingler bought it in Philip O' Connor in 1941).

Whereas it is in Cambridge, it begins with côtoyer the arts persons of London, in particular Tambimuttu. It publishes booklets which are printed by Poetry London in 1941 (these booklets are of George Scurfield, G.S. Fraser, Anne Ridler and Nicholas Moore). These booklets lead it to become the assistant of Tambimuttu. He works later for Grey Walls Press.

The Knell Tower , a collection of poems, is published in 1944, with illustrations by Lucien Freud. Thereafter, it has evil to be published; unusual fact for an English poet, it is more famous with the the United States. Its association with the romantic ones of the Années 1940 was in fact not very representative of its style.

In the Years 1950, it works like Jardinier, writing in parallel The tall bearded iris (1956). In 1968, it proposes 31 translations, each one under a different pseudonym, of a poem of Baudelaire for a contest of the Sunday Times , directed by George Steiner. This work is possibly published and is today available on line.

Longings off the Acrobats , a selection of its poems, is published by Peter Riley and is published in 1990 by Carcanet Press.

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• Spleen: Thirty and one version of the poem of Baudelaire '' I am like the king '' by Nicholas Moore