Thomas Moore (1)Rezensionen

Moore made ingenious use of the oriental setting made fashionable by Byron to disguise a poem on Irish national aspirations. The poem was immediately popular not only in Britain but was speedily translated all over Europe.

I stumbled across Lalla Rookh while reading Middlemarch by George Eliot. So now that I've been going back through my notes on Middlemarch, I decided to pick it up. I'm surprised that I haven't gotten a hint of it before now. There's a lot of references I'm going to enjoy going back and researching.

"the ‘Intercepted letters’ a later English publication of great wit and humor, has put them to their proper use by holding them up as butts for the ridicule and contempt of mankind." - Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Tessé, 8 Dec. 1813 [PTJ:RS 7:33-36]

I bought this volume for one poem only, "The Minstrel Boy", but have completely fallen in love with Moore's poetry. Given the fact that my taste in poetry runs towards Jack Prelutsky's work, this amazes even me. There's just something about Moore's work that I like.

1884? , $10.

"A Biography and Critical Review of Lyric Poets by Dr. R. Shelton Mackenzie, Author of The "Life of Charles Dickens", etc. ; and A Collection of Choice Melodies, Arranged as Solos, Trios, and Quartets, with Piano Accompaniment, by Sir John Stevenson, and Others, Illustrated bt Daniel Maclise, of the Royal Academy, London, and William Riches, An American Artist."