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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In the following essay, Brown offers a detailed examination of Moore's Eastern sources for Lalla Rookh, The Loves of the Angels, and The Epicurean, arguing that although Moore's use of E...
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In the following essay, DeFord considers the quality of Moore's satirical poetry and examines the targets of his attacks.
I the Topical Versifier
It is doubtful if Moore ever understood entirel...
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In the following essay, St. Clair alleges that Moore, while writing his massive two-volume biography of Lord Byron, purposefully altered some of Byron's private correspondence with him in order...
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In the following essay, Bate contends that Moore's poem “Fragment of a Mythological Hymn to Love,” published in the 1806 collection Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems, served as an i...
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In the following essay, Davis examines the varied responses The Irish Melodies has elicited among both Irish and English audiences in light of its position as the product of a colonized nation.
In a l...
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In the following essay, Wright maintains that English author Thomas Love Peacock's character of Larynx, who appears in Peacock's satirical novel Nightmare Abbey (1818), constitutes a par...
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In the following essay, Molloy studies the considerable appeal the heroic themes and emotionally-charged language in Moore's Irish Melodies had for many nineteenth-century Irish-Australian poet...
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In the following essay, Sharafuddin argues that Moore set Lalla Rookh in the exotic locale of the Orient to conceal the fact that the work is a political allegory, espousing the poet's intense ...
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Thomas Moore
