Gerald Moore (scholar)

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Gerald Moore (b. 1924) is an independent scholar living in Udine, Italy. He is one of the foremost scholars of contemporary African anglophone poetry. With Ulli Beier, he edited the influential Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, a comprehensive anthology.

[edit] Major works

• Seven African Writers. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.
• Modern Poetry from Africa (ed. with Ulli Beier). Hammondsworth: Penguin, 1963. Revised as The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, 4th ed., 1999.
• The Chosen Tongue: English Writing in the Tropical World. Harlow: Longmans, 1969.
• Wole Soyinka. London: Evans Brothers, 1971.
• Twelve African Writers. London: Hutchinson, 1980.

As translator:

• Beti, Mongo. The Poor Christ of Bomba. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland, 2005.