Thomas Moult

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Thomas Moult (1893–1974) was a versatile English journalist and writer, and one of the Georgian poets. He is known for his annual anthologies Best Poems of the Year, 1922 to 1943, which were popular verse selections taken from periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic. His poem 'Truly He Hath A Sweet Bed' from Down Here the Hawthorn was set to music for chorus and orchestra by Cyril Rootham (as Brown Earth, 1921-2).[1]

Life[]

He was born in Derbyshire, to Jewish parents.[2] He wrote much newspaper criticism, on music and drama and as a book reviewer; and on sport in the popular press.

He founded a magazine, Voices, for young writers, in 1919, publishing Sherwood Anderson, A. E. Coppard, Louis Golding, F. V. Branford, and Neville Cardus. It has been described as "eminently uncontroversial".[3]

From 1952 to 1962 he was president of the Poetry Society and chairman of the editorial board of Poetry Review.[4]

Family[]

Moult's daughter Joy was the first wife of psychologist Oliver Zangwill.

Works[]

  • Snow over Elden (1920) novel
  • Down Here the Hawthorn (1921) poems
  • Cenotaph: A Book of Remembrance in Poetry and Prose for November the Eleventh (1923) editor
  • The Comely Lass (1923) novel
  • Forty Years in My Bookshop by Walter T. Spencer (1927) editor
  • Barrie (1928) criticism
  • Derbyshire Prose and Verse (1929) editor
  • Saturday Night (1931) novel
  • Sally Go Round the Moon (1931)
  • Playing for England by Jack Hobbs (1931) editor
  • Mary Webb: Her Life and Work (1932)
  • W. H. Davies (1933)
  • Willow Pattern (1934) cricket poems
  • Bat and Ball (1935) cricket anthology

The Best Poems of 1931[]

Poets included were:

A. E. - Conrad Aiken - - - William Rose Benét - Anthony Bertram - Edmund Blunden - Kay Boyle - Nancy Campbell - - Elizabeth Coatsworth - Robert P. Tristram Coffin - - W. H. Davies - John Gould Fletcher - John Galsworthy - - Stella Gibbons - Wilfrid Gibson - G. Rostrevor Hamilton - Ernest Hartsock - F. R. Higgins - - Robert Hillyer - Thomas Hornsby Ferril - Helen Hoyt - Julian Huxley - - - Frank Kendon - - Alfred Kreymborg - - - Sylvia Lynd - - E. H. W. Meyerstein - Harold Monro - - David Morton - Edwin Muir - Robert Nichols - Jessica Nelson North - Alfred Noyes - - Herbert E. Palmer - Dorothy Parker - - Frederic Prokosch - Lizette Woodworth Reese - - - James Rorty - - Lady Margaret Sackville - - Leonora Speyer - J. C. Squire - - L. A. G. Strong - Sara Teasdale - Katharine Tynan - - - John Hall Wheelock - - Humbert Wolfe - Barbara Young

Notes[]

  1. ^ score and electronic realisation at Cyril Rootham website
  2. ^ William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein, The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, Palgrave Macmillan (2011), p. 702
  3. ^ Robert H. Ross, The Georgian Revolt", p. 203.
  4. ^ Wisden 1975, p. 1081.

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