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Bernard Moore
b. 1873
A poet writing under a pen name, he brought Cornwall’s fishing villages, dialect, and sea-bound life vividly into verse. His work also reached toward war poetry and song collecting, giving his books a strong sense of place and period.
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Cornish Catches, and Other Verses
by Bernard Moore
About the author
Samuel Syrus Hunt (1873–1953) wrote as Bernard Moore, a British poet closely associated with Cornwall. His books began appearing in the 1910s, and his poetry is especially remembered for its focus on Cornish life, particularly fishermen and coastal communities.
A distinctive part of his writing is its use of Cornish dialect, which helped give the poems a strong local voice. In addition to regional subjects, he also wrote war poetry, showing a broader emotional range than his coastal themes alone might suggest.
He is also noted for collecting Cornish songs, which fits naturally with the interest in local speech and tradition found across his work. No suitable verified portrait image could be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so a profile image is not included.