Sarah McCleave - Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration: Poetry, Music, and Politics

Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration

Written by internationally established scholars of Thomas Moores music, poetry, and prose writing, Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration is a collection of twelve essays and a timely response to significant new biographical, historiographical and editorial work on Moore. This collection reflects the rich variety of cutting-edge work being done on this significant and prolific figure. Sarah McCleave and Brian G. Caraher have contributed an introduction that positions Thomas Moore in his own time (18001850), addresses subsequent neglect in the twentieth century, and contextualises the contemporary re-evaluation of Moore as a figure of considerable interdisciplinary artistic and cultural significance. The contributions to this collection establish Moores importance in the fields of Neoclassical and Romantic lyricism, musical performance, song-writing, postcolonial criticism, Orientalism and biographical writingas well as defining the significance of his voice as an engaged social and political commentator of a strongly cosmopolitan and pluralistic inclination.

Sarah McCleave is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queens University Belfast; she was Director of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies (20152017).

Brian G. Caraher was Chair of English Literature (19932015) and Head of Graduate Teaching and Research in the School of English (19962005) at Queens University Belfast.

Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution

Series Editors:

Michael Brown, University of Aberdeen, UK

Kath Campbell, University of Edinburgh, UK

John M. Kirk, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Andrew Noble, Strathclyde University, UK

United Islands? The Languages of Resistance
Edited by John Kirk, Andrew Noble and Michael Brown

Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song
Julie Henigan

Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland
Edited by John Kirk, Andrew Noble and Michael Brown

The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 17231795
Kate Horgan

James Orr, Poet and Irish Radical
Carol Baraniuk

Reading Robert Burns
Texts, Contexts, Transformations
Carol McGuirk

Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration
Edited by Sarah McCleave and Brian G. Caraher

Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration

Poetry, Music, and Politics

Edited by Sarah McCleave and Brian G. Caraher

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Contents

List of Figures

Introduction: Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration Reassessed: Enlightened Tolerance and Interdisciplinary Poetics
BRIAN G. CARAHER AND SARAH MCCLEAVE

PART I
Moores Literary and Musical Inspirations

The Imagined Unities of Thomas Moore
HARRY WHITE

Amongst Women: Thomas Moore and Classical Inspiration
JANE MOORE

Moores Romantic Neoclassicism
EDWARD LARRISSY

Moore, Stevenson, Bishop, and the Powers: A Series of Complex Relationships
UNA HUNT

PART II
Moores Melodies, Airs, and Songs in Performative Contexts

Give them life by singing them about: Moores Musical Performances in the English Drawing Room
JOANNE BURNS

Problematizing Primitivism: Contesting Antiquarianism in Moores Irish Melodies
SHEILA ROONEY

All her lovely companions are faded and gone: How The Last Rose of Summer Became Europes Favourite Irish Melody
AXEL KLEIN

Those half creatures of Plato: The Musical Inspiration behind Moores Sacred Songs and National Airs
MARY LOUISE ODONNELL

PART III
Moores Political Inspirations and Moores Poetry in Political Contexts

Anacreon Moore and the Prince of Pleasure: George IV as Satiric Inspiration
JEFFERY VAIL

Moores Oriental Artifice: Mughal History, Irish Antiquarianism, and Romance in Lalla Rookh
DANIEL SANJIV ROBERTS

The dull lapse of hopeless slavery: European and Irish Politics in Moores Fables for the Holy Alliance, Rhymes on the Road, &c. &c .
JENNIFER MARTIN

Grief Mingled with Execrations: Thomas Moore and the Death of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
ROBERT W. JONES

Appendix 1
COMPILED BY AXEL KLEIN

Appendix 2
COMPILED BY MARY LOUISE ODONNELL

List of Major Works

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index
COMPILED BY TRONA OHANLON

List of Figures

6.1 The Foxs Sleep, from Edward Bunting Manuscript 4/29, Queens University Belfast, McClay Library.

6.2 When He Who Adores Thee [The Foxs Sleep], from A Selection of Irish Melodies Number One (1808). Queens University Belfast, McClay Library.

6.3 Come Send Round the Wine, from A Selection of Irish Melodies Number Two (1808). Queens University Belfast, McClay Library.

7.1 Beginning of Die letzte Hose by Joseph Victor von Scheffel in Max Friedlnders Humoristische Lieder ( c .1855). Public domain.

7.2 Excerpt from Joseph Aschers Paraphrase de concert sur lair Irlandais , The Last Rose of Summer, Op. 114 (1863). Authors collection.

7.3 Tis the Last Rose of Summer , Op. 8 no. 2 (1841) for guitar by Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti. Music and Theatre Library of Sweden, Boije 535, with permission.

8.1 The Flowery Band: A Ballad by Thos Moore Esq.

8.2 Page from a music manuscript in Thomas Moores hand. RIA, 12 27.

8.3 Thou art oh God, bars 1041, from Moores Sacred Songs .

8.4 Weep Children of Israel, bars 28, from Moores Sacred Songs (1824).

8.5 Sound the Timbrel from Moores Sacred Songs (1816). Queens University Belfast, McClay Library.

8.6 War against Babylon from Moores Sacred Songs . Queens University Belfast, McClay Library.

8.7 How lightly mounts the Musess Wing from Moores Sacred Songs (1824). Queens University Belfast, McClay Library.

8.8 Oh Fair! Oh purest, bars 966, from Moores Sacred Songs .

8.9 Title page of Moores National Airs (1818). Queens University Belfast, McClay Library.

8.10 Should those fond hopes, bars 912, from Moores National Airs.

8.11 Dost thou remember?, bars 15, from Moores National Airs.

8.12 If in loving, singing, bars 2836, from Moores National Airs.

8.13 When thou shalt wander, bars 26, from Moores National Airs.

8.14 Oh! No, not een when first we lovd (Cashmerian Air), bars 1748, from Moores National Airs.

8.15 Gaily sounds the Castanet, bars 16, from Moores National Airs.