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List of Figures
List of Tables
Brian G. Caraher & Sarah McCleave, "Moore and Romantic Inspiration Reassessed"
I. Moore’s Literary and Musical Inspirations
1. Harry White, "The Imagined Unities of Thomas Moore"
2. Jane Moore, "Amongst Women: Thomas Moore and Classical Inspiration"
3. Edward Larrissy, "Moore’s Romantic Neoclassicism"
4. Una Hunt, "Moore, Stevenson, Bishop and the Powers:
A Series of Complex Relationships"
II. Moore’s Melodies, Airs and Songs in Performative Contexts
5. Joanne Burns, "’Give them life by singing them about’:
Moore’s Musical Performances in the English Drawing-room"
6. Sheila Rooney, "Problematizing Primitivism:
Contesting Antiquarianism in Moore’s Irish Melodies"
7. Axel Klein, "’All her lovely companions are faded and gone’:
How "The Last Rose of Summer" Became Europe’s Favourite Irish Melody"
8. Mary-Louise O’Donnell, "’Those half creatures of Plato’: The Musical Inspiration behind Moore’s National Airs and Sacred Songs"
III. Moore’s Political Inspirations and Moore’s Poetry in Political Contexts
9. Jeffrey Vail, "Anacreon Moore and the Prince of Pleasure:
George IV as Satiric Inspiration"
10. Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, "Moore’s Oriental Artifice: Mughal History,
Irish Antiquarianism and Romance in Lalla Rookh"
11. Jennifer Martin, "The ‘dull lapse of hopeless slavery’: European & Irish Politics
in Moore’s Fables for the Holy Alliance, Rhymes on the Road, &c. &c. (1823)"
12. Robert W. Jones, "’Grief mingled with deep execrations’:
Thomas Moore and the Death of Richard Brinsley Sheridan"
About the author
Dr. Sarah McCleave is a senior lecturer in the School of Creative Arts at Queen’s University Belfast.
Brian Caraher is Chair of English Literature (since 1993) and Head of Graduate Teaching and Research in the School of English (since 1996) at Queen’s University Belfast
Summary
Written by internationally established scholars of Thomas Moore’s music, poetry, and prose writing, Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration is a collection of fourteen essays and a timely response to significant new biographical, historiographical and editorial work on Moore.
