George Washington Moon Explained

George Washington Moon, F. R. S. L.
Birth Date:	1823
Death Date:	1909
Death Place:	Brighton, England
Nationality:	English
Notableworks:	Elijah the Prophet

George Washington Moon (1823  - 1909) was an English writer, poet and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Moon published several poems, contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography, and wrote a number of books on English grammar. Several of these books were lengthy compilations of the purported grammatical errors of specific writers,^[1] which led to vigorous counterattacks and controversies.^[2]

George Washington Moon is the author of a book-length epic poem, Elijah the Prophet (1866). It was written in Spenserian stanza, a nine-line strophe with rhyme scheme ABABBCBCC.^{[3] [4]}

Other works

• The Monograph Gospel, being the Four Gospels Arranged in One Continuous Narrative in the Words of Scripture, Without Omission of Fact or Repetition of Statement
• The King's English
• The Soul's Inquiries; Answered in the Words of Scripture
• The Soul's Desires Breathed to God in the Words of Scripture
• The Soul's Comfort in Sorrow
• Elijah the Prophet, an Epic Poem
• The Revisers' English ... a Series of Criticisms, Showing the Revisers' Violations of the Laws of Language (1882)
• Ecclesiastical English: A Series Of Criticisms Showing The Old Testament Revisers' Violations Of The Laws Of The Language: Illustrated By More Than 1000 Quotations: Being Part II Of The Revisers' English (1886)
• He, With All My Worldly Goods, I Thee Endow She, But, What Is Written In The Law, How Readest You? A Novel (1890)
• The Dean's English: A Criticism on the Dean of Canterbury's Essays on the Queen's English
• Learned Men's English: The Grammarians: A Series Of Criticisms On The English Of Dean Alford, Lindley Murray, And Other Writers On The Language
• The Oldest Type-printed Book In Existence: A Disquisition On The Relative Antiquity Of The Pfister And Mazarin Bibles And The 64-line A Catholicon: Prefaced By A Brief History Of The Invention Of Printing
• Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries

Bibliography

• George Washington Moon, Elijah the Prophet, London 1867.

Notes and References

1. https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/collection/1450/george_washington_moon_1823-1909 George Washington Moon (1823-1909).
2. Web site: Goodnight Moon: A Tribute to George Washington Moon. David M. Rusinoff. 2010-03-07.
3. https://www.britannica.com/art/Spenserian-stanza Spenserian stanza, poetic form at Encyclopaedia Britannica.
4. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/glossary-terms/detail/spenserian-stanza Spenserian stanza at Poetry Foundation.