T. Sturge Moore devoted his life to art, not only as a poet and verse dramatist but also as a talented artist who designed masks and costumes for the theater as well as bookcovers and bookplates for many of W. B. Yeats's books and for members of Yeats's family. A friend and contemporary of Yeats, Moore responded to the same late nineteenth-century influences--the Pre-Raphaelites (especially Rossetti), Ruskin, Pater, Wilde--in addition to the French symbolist poets and Flaubert. Unlike Yeats, however, Moore also deeply admired Matthew Arnold, and, although reverential toward the classical and Christian values of the West, he remained skeptical of religious dogma and of the compensatory occultism that fascinated Yeats. Defined by Yvor Winters as a counterromantic, Moore half-consciously struggled with his florid poetic diction, inherited from Keats via Tennyson and Rossetti. Inversions, archaisms, the liberal use of the familiar form of the second-person personal pronoun...