Thomas Moore

The title-page quotes Pope , who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron (The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor (The Squire's...

The full title was Poems and Translations from the Minor Greek Poets and Others: written chiefly between the ages of ten and sixteen. The volume was supplied with two title-pages, one conventionally printed and...

Colm O Lochlainn in Anglo-Irish Song-writers since Moore, 1950, praised KT 's words as the sweetest in English to the Derry Air (a melody also known as the Londonderry Air, or, from other...

The epigraph to the volume is from Moore 's Loves of the Angels. AT was assumed to be influenced by Felicia Hemans , but denied that this was the case. The ruin and misery...

Before she left London, MT met there her fellow Irish poet Tom Moore . He subsequently visited her in Dublin and complimented her in verse. She exchanged poems with Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre) ...

MT set her face against open publication, partly because of the reviewers' ostentatious moral panic over mildly erotic poems by Thomas Moore , and over ladies associated with him (as she was by virtue of...

When Thomas Moore read Psyche he expressed his pleasure to MT in a short lyric which calls her by the name of her protagonist, Psyche; at her death he eulogised her by the same...

Henry Moore copied poems into a manuscript album which he titled Poems HM 1811 (now at Chawton House Library ). The first 66 pages are occupied by MT 's work, at the end of which...

This splendidly excessive tale was elaborately summarised by the Critical Review. It had the nerve to complain at the end that Owenson ought to write in a more simple and natural manner,

Following her well-publicised battles first with Colburn and then with Saunders and Otley , Morgan got Thomas Moore to sound out John Murray about taking her on. She had a plan to follow her Life...

While working for the Featherstones, Sydney Owenson met Thomas Moore at a party given above his parents' grocery shop in Aungier Street, Dublin. She gained access to Ireland's bluestocking circle through Alicia or Alice Lefanu

While in Italy, she met with Volta (who invented the voltaic battery) in Milan, and had dinner with the Countess of Albany , widow of Bonnie Prince Charlie (who had left him after eight years...

These provided the pattern for Thomas Moore 's very fashionable Irish Melodies. Either Moore's or possibly Morgan's are provided by Frank Churchill for Jane Fairfax along with the famous piano in Austen 's Mansfield Park.

HBS 's domestic training consisted of learning knitting, sewing, and Presbyterian and Episcopal church catechisms from an aunt and grandmother who were skilled at weaving and embroidery. Her father did not allow novels in...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...