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Complete Works of Thomas Moore

Thomas More, Isabelle Hall

Publisher: Lighthouse Books for Translation and Publishing

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Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, satirist, composer, singer and close friend of Lord Byron.
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He was born on May 28, 1779, in Dublin, Ireland. Close friends with writer Lord Byron, Moore was entrusted with the famous romantic's memoirs after his death. Moore tried in vain to save them from being destroyed after selling the copyright, with Byron's approval, to publisher John Murray. The memoirs were burned by men representing the interests of Byron's estranged wife and his half sister. As for his own work, Moore wrote 130 original poems set to folk melodies, including "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer." His poem "Lalla Rookh" is credited as the most translated poem of its time. Moore died in 1852. 
This collection includes the following: 
I.    Introduction
II.    Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
III.    The Odes of Anacreon
IV.    Thomas Moore by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
V.    Famous Reviews, Selected and Edited with Introductory
VI.    The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore
VII.    Life of Lord Byron
VIII.    Lalla Rookh

Available since: 03/14/2019.

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