Sturge Moore was born at 3 Wellington Square, Hastings, East Sussex, on 4 March 1870 and educated at
Dulwich College, the
Croydon School of Art and
Lambeth School of Art. In Lambeth he studied under the 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. 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. In 1913 Moore nominated
Rabindranath Tagore the Indian poet for the Nobel Prize in literature. Moore received a
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. He was cremated at
Woking. ==Family==