LETTER 272. TO MR. MURRAY.
“Venice, April
9. 1817.
“Your letters of the 18th and
20th are arrived. In my own I have given
you the rise, progress, ...
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Thomas Moore was closely attuned to the taste and artistic sensibility of his age, but he is remembered now primarily by the Irish, who still sing his songs and claim him as their own. He was a born l...
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Although he came to be regarded as the national lyricist of Ireland, Thomas Moore was also a musician, novelist, satirist, historian, and the biographer of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; George Gordon, Lo...
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