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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 050 0 174 x 110mm 204 pages |
THOMAS MOORE Poetical Works of Thomas Little 1801 In his lifetime Byron’s friend, the Irish poet and musician Tom Moore, was hugely successful. He is now best known for his Irish Melodies, but in 1817 his publisher paid, sight unseen, an advance of the unheard-of sum of £3,000 for the oriental tale Lalla Rookh. Hazlitt attacks Moore in The Spirit of the Age, on the grounds of artificiality and prettiness of style. A space need to be made however for this early volume of love lyrics: they have a freshness and spontaneity that the later poetry missed. Moore omitted them from his collected works. £27.50 $48 Immortal he must be, as long as English ladies can love, or Irish gentlemen can drink, which, we take it, is as much immortality as any modern bard can consider himself entitled to. |
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