The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Reprinted from the Early Editions with Explanatory Notes, Etc.

670 pp. Mustard boards, gilt decor, all edges gilt. 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.