SOURCE: Sharafuddin, Mohammed. “Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh and the Politics of Irony.” In Islam and Romantic Orientalism: Literary Encounters with the Orient, pp. 134-213. London: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1994,
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 support of political independence for Ireland.
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