Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration

<p>Written by internationally established scholars of Thomas Moore’s music poetry and prose writing <i>Thomas Moore and Romantic Inspiration</i> 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.</p>