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Irish poet, friend of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Moore's writings range from lyric to satire, from prose romance to history and biography. His popular IRISH MELODIES appeared in ten parts between 1807 and 1835. Thomas Moore was born in Dublin as the son of a grocer. His background was poor and he never varnished it. In his poem 'Epitaph on a Tuft-Hunter' he mocked snobbery: "Heaven
grant him now some noble nook/For, rest his soul! |
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