John Gray (poet) French, German, Latin, music and art. In 1882 he passed the Civil Service exams and, five years later, the University of London matriculation exams. He joined the Foreign Office where he became a librarian. Gray is best known today as an aesthetic poet of the 1890s and as a friend of Ernest Dowson, Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. He was also a talented translator, bringing works by the French Symbolists Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Jules Laforgue and Arthur Rimbaud into English, often for the first time. He is purported to be the inspiration behind the title character in Wilde's "The
Alan Moore (poet) is widely known for his regular articles in "The Sunday Business Post", and is the author of the best-selling "Tax Magic." Alan Moore (poet) Alan Moore (born 1960, Dublin), is an Irish writer and poet, published by Anvil Press Poetry. His first collection of poems, "Opia" (1986) was a UK Poetry Book Society Choice, a distinction for a first collection. Michael Kenneally complimented Moore's creativity in "Poetry in contemporary Irish Literature". His second collection, "How Now!" (2010) was described as "a searingly autobiographical book which bears comparison with Paul Durcan's "Daddy, Daddy"," and "a fine cumulative portrait of growing up