George Augustus Moore





George Augustus Moore

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born
in Moore Hall, Lough Carra, County Mayo, Ireland
February 24, 1852

died
January 21, 1933

gender
male

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George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day.

As a naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was particularly influenced by the works of Émile Zola. His writings influenced James Joyce, according to the literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann, and, although Moore's work is sometimes seen as outside the mainstream of both Irish and British literature, he is as often regarded as the first grea...more


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“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
George Augustus Moore, The Brook Kerith

“Reality can destroy the dream, why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality.”
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“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”
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