Edward Moore turned to literature after failing as a linen-draper. His Fables for the Fair Sex (1744) became one of the more popular poems of the century. Moore was patronized by George Lyttleton and Lord Chesterfield; he edited The World, a much-respected periodical paper whose contributors included Horace Walpole and Richard Owen Cambridge.
TEXT RECORDS:
1748The Trial of Selim the Persian, for divers High Crimes and Misdemeanours.
PUBLICATIONS:
Fables for the female sex. 1744.
The trial of Selim the Persian for divers high crimes and misdemeanours. 1748.
The foundling: a comedy. 1748.
An ode to David Garrick upon the talk of the town. 1749.
Solomon: a serenata. 1750.
Gil Blas: a comedy. 1751.
The gamester: a tragedy. 1753.
Poems, fables, and plays. 1756.
Dramatic works. 1788.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
education not known
poet
dramatist
The World
Robert Dodsley
Henry Fielding
David Garrick
Robert Lloyd
George Lyttelton
Rev. Joseph Spence
Rev. Joseph Warton
REFERENCE:
DNB; NCBEL.
David Erskine Baker, Companion to the Play-House (1764); Biographia Dramatica (1782; 1812); Life in Dramatic Works (1788); Samuel Jackson Pratt, Cabinet of Poetry (1808); Alexander Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature 3rd ed. (1876); J. H. Caskey, The Life and Works of Moore (1927).
COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Edward Moore:
| 1. | 1748 Anonymous, in "The Speech against Selim, and his Defence" Gentleman's Magazine 18 (July 1748) 320. |
| 2. | 1809 Nathan Drake, in Essays Illustrative of the Rambler (1809-10) 2:261-64. |
BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Edward Moore:
