The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, with Elucidatory Notes, to which is added An Original Memoir (America's Standard Edition, Illustrated with a Choice Selection of Original Steel Plate Engravings)

Moore, Thomas; Balmanno, M.

Published by William T. Amies, 1878

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One gathering loose but included, edges rubbed, hinges starting. 1878 Hard Cover. lxviii, 352, 327 pp. Tall 8vo. Original red-orange cloth, gilt titles, black & gold rules & decorations. Frontispiece and engraved title page precede printed title page, 9 steel engravings in text. Two column format. Thomas Moore, (born May 28, 1779, Dublin, Ire.?died Feb. 25, 1852, Wiltshire, Eng.), Irish poet, satirist, composer, and political propagandist. He was a close friend of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. ?Bendemeer's Stream,? an excerpt taken from Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh (1817); from a 1911 recording, soprano solo with orchestra accompaniment performed by Elizabeth Spencer. The son of a Roman Catholic wine merchant, Moore graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1799 and then studied law in London. His major poetic work, Irish Melodies (1807?34), earned him an income of £500 annually for a quarter of a century. It contained such titles as ?The Last Rose of Summer? and ?Oft in the Stilly Night.? The Melodies, a group of 130 poems set to the music of Moore and of Sir John Stevenson and performed for London?s aristocracy, aroused sympathy and support for the Irish nationalists, among whom Moore was a popular hero.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, with Elucidatory Notes, to which is added An Original Memoir (America's Standard Edition, Illustrated with a Choice Selection of Original Steel Plate Engravings)
• Publisher: William T. Amies
• Publication Date: 1878
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket