ABSTRACT
Written by internationally established scholars of Thomas Moore’s 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 Caraher have contributed an introduction that positions Moore in his own time (1800-1850), addresses subsequent neglect in the twentieth century, and contextualises the contemporary re-evaluation of Thomas Moore as a figure of considerable interdisciplinary artistic and cultural significance. The contributions to this collection establish Moore’s importance in the fields of Neoclassical and Romantic lyricism, musical performance, song-writing, postcolonial criticism, Orientalism and biographical writing— as well as defining the significance of his voice as an engaged social and political commentator of a strongly cosmopolitan and pluralistic inclination.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |27 pages
Introduction: Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration Reassessed
part 1|63 pages
Moore’s Literary and Musical Inspirations
part 2|73 pages
Moore’s Melodies, Airs, and Songs in Performative Contexts
chapter 5|13 pages
“Give them life by singing them about”
chapter 7|18 pages
“All her lovely companions are faded and gone”
chapter 8|21 pages
“Those half creatures of Plato”
part 3|64 pages
Moore’s Political Inspirations and Moore’s Poetry in Political Contexts