Summary
A HUGE bestseller in his lifetime -- more widely read than any other poet except Scott and Byron -- Thomas Moore is now chiefly remembered for his well-loved Irish Melodies. Songs like The Minstrel Boy and Tis the Last Rose Of Summer went round the world and, in the dark days following the Act of Union, helped give Ireland a sense of national identity.
But Moore's importance as a leading figure in the romantic movement and his considerable influence on other poets, not least his great friend Byron, has largely been forgotten.See the full content of this document
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An Unsung Master
So, too, have his other achievements. He was a pioneer in many fields: a novelist and historian; a ground-breaking biographer whose lives of Sheridan, Byron and Lord Edward Fitzgerald are still essenti...
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