Poet and psychiatrist Merrill Moore was born in Tennessee to literary parents: both his father and mother were directors of Tennessee’s libraries, archives, and history. Moore earned his BA and MD from Vanderbilt University, where he became associated with a group of young poets known as the Fugitives. His first poems were published under the pen name “Dendric” in their literary magazine, the
Fugitive.
Moore moved to Boston in 1930 and became a practicing psychiatrist specializing in alcoholism and suicide. He served in World War II, earning a Bronze Star and an Army Commendation medal. He was a friend of Robert Frost and Robert Lowell; Frost once described Moore as a “serious physician and serious artist [who] had no notion of being taken lightly; still there was something of the rogue there that was a part of his great charm. He seldom cracked a smile.” Moore died in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Poet and psychiatrist Merrill Moore was born in Tennessee to literary parents: both his father and mother were directors of Tennessee’s libraries, archives, and history. Moore earned his BA and MD from Vanderbilt University, where he became associated with a group of young poets known as the Fugitives. His first poems were published under the pen name “Dendric” in their literary magazine, the
Fugitive.
Moore moved to Boston in 1930 and became a practicing psychiatrist specializing in alcoholism and suicide. He served in World War II, earning a Bronze Star and an Army Commendation medal. He was a friend of Robert Frost and Robert Lowell; Frost once described Moore as a “serious physician and serious artist [who] had no notion of being taken lightly; still there was something of the rogue there that was a part of his great charm. He seldom cracked a smile.” Moore died in Quincy, Massachusetts.
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