Thomas Moore

Moore, Thomas 

Bom May 28, 1779, in Dublin; died Feb. 25, 1852, in London. English poet of Irish extraction.

The son of a grocer, Moore studied at the University of Dublin. His romantic “oriental” poem Lalla Rookh (1817) and his Irish Melodies (1807–34), which glorify the struggle and sufferings of the Irish people, were highly popular in Russia. The well-known song “Those Evening Bells” (translated by I. Kozlov) is part of the Russian section of Moore’s cycle of verses National Airs (1818–27).

Moore’s satires, particularly his Fables for the Holy Alliance (1823), are directed against the reactionary policy of the English and other European rulers of his time. He also published The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1830), The History of Ireland (1835–46), and a biography of R. B. Sheridan (1825).

WORKS

The Poetical Works. London-New York, 1910.
The Letters, vols. 1–2. Oxford, 1964.
In Russian translation:
[Verse.] In Angliiskie poety v biografiiakh i obraztsakh. Compiled by N.
Gerbel’. St. Petersburg, 1875.

REFERENCES

Istoriia angliiskoi literatury, vol. 2, fasc. 1. Moscow, 1953.
Jones, H. M. The Harp That Once—: A Chronicle of the Life of Thomas Moore. New York, 1937.
De Ford, M. A. Thomas Moore. New York [1967]. (Bibliography, pp. 119–23.)