Thomas Moult was a versatile English journalist and writer, and one of the Georgian poets

Georgian poets

The Georgian poets were, by the strictest definition, those whose works appeared in a series of five anthologies named Georgian Poetry, published by Harold Monro and edited by Edward Marsh. The first volume contained poems written in 1911 and 1912. The poets included Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke,...

. 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.

Life

He was born in Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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. 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 A. E. Coppard

A. E. Coppard

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, Louis Golding

Louis Golding

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, F. V. Branford, and Neville Cardus

Neville Cardus

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. It has been described as "eminently uncontroversial".

Works

• Snow over Elden (1920) novel
• Down Here the Hawthorn (1921) poems
• The Comely Lass (1923) novel
• Walter T. Spencer: Forty years in my bookshop (1927) editor
• J. M. Barrie (1928) criticism
• Derbyshire Prose and Verse (1929)
• Saturday Night (1931) novel
• Mary Webb: Her Life and Work (1932)
• W. H. Davies (1933)
• Willow Pattern (1934) cricket poems
• Bat and Ball (1935) cricket anthology
• Hermann Melville

The Best Poems of 1931

Poets included were:

A. E. - Conrad Aiken

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 - Margaret Emerson Bailey - T. O. Beachcroft - William Rose Benét

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 - Anthony Bertram

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 - Edmund Blunden

Edmund Blunden

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 - Kay Boyle

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 - Nancy Campbell - Thomas Caldecott Chubb - Elizabeth Coatsworth

Elizabeth Coatsworth

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 - Robert P. Tristram Coffin - Jane Culver - W. H. Davies

W. H. Davies

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 - John Gould Fletcher

John Gould Fletcher

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 - John Galsworthy

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 - Viola Gerard Garvin - Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons

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 - Wilfrid Gibson - G. Rostrevor Hamilton - Ernest Hartsock - F. R. Higgins

F. R. Higgins

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 - John Lee Higgins - Robert Hillyer

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 - Thomas Hornsby Ferril - Helen Hoyt

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 - Julian Huxley

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 - Leslie Nelson Jennings - Geoffrey Johnson - Frank Kendon

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 - Stanley Kimmel - Alfred Kreymborg

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 - Ruth Lechlitner - Marie Luhrs - Sylvia Lynd

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 - Alister Mackenzie

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 - E. H. W. Meyerstein

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 - Harold Monro

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 - Virginia Moore - David Morton

David Morton

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 - Edwin Muir

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 - Robert Nichols - Jessica Nelson North

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 - Alfred Noyes

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 - Doris Pailthorpe - Herbert E. Palmer - Dorothy Parker

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 - Laurence Powys - Frederic Prokosch

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 - Lizette Woodworth Reese

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 - Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger - Robert L. Roe - James Rorty - A. Wolseley Russell - Lady Margaret Sackville

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 - Anderson M. Scruggs - Leonora Speyer

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 - J. C. Squire

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 - L. Steni - L. A. G. Strong - Sara Teasdale

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 - Katharine Tynan

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 - A. R. Ubsdell - Marie de L. Welch - John Hall Wheelock

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 - Mary Brent Whiteside - Humbert Wolfe

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 - Barbara Young

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