He was literary editor of the Independent and the New York Evening Post before becoming editor of The Nation. In 1930 and 1934 he was considered for, but did not win, the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was a founder of New Humanism, which defended classical traditions such as Platonism. Some of More´s works included Shelburne Essays, The Greek Tradition, a biography of Benjamin Franklin, a book on Byron, an anthology of 17th century religious literature, and translations of Plato and Aeschylus.