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Poetry of Thomas Moore by Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852).

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/poetry-of-thomas-moore-by-thomas-moore/
The Dubliner, Thomas Moore, born in 1779 was a poet, composer, musician, and writer.
He is most famous for the 10 volume work "Irish Melodies" published between 1807 and 1834 which consists of 130 of his poems set to music, much of it based on old Irish airs. "The Last Rose of Summer" and "The Minstrel Boy" are two of the most well known. Many of these "Melodies" are included in this collection.
He is perhaps most infamous for having burned, at the request of the Byron family, the manuscript of Byron's memoirs which Bryon had left to him for publication after his death.
During his lifetime, his reputation as a poet placed him alongside Byron and Scott and Shelly. His narrative poem Lalla Rookh for example was possibly the most translated poem of the time and earned him £3000, what was till then the highest price paid by an English publisher for a poem. This collection contains extracts from the poem and without the linking or "framing" prose sections. A lovely edition of the full poem can be found here https://archive.org/details/lallrookhanorien00mooruoft with illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.
Moore was an Irish Nationalist and turned down the post of "Irish Poet Laureate" as he felt it would require him to tone down his outspoken Irish national politics. Despite this, he counted the Regent - later King George IV as one of his patrons.
Moore died on February 25, 1852 and though much of his work is now neglected, his enduring legacy is that his "Melodies" which were translated into practically every European language popularized Irish Music throughout the world.
( Noel Badrian)
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    Genres for the project: Poetry

    Keywords that describe the book: short poems, narrative poems, moore's melodies, lalla rookh

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Last edited by NoelBadrian on May 5th, 2017, 8:08 am, edited 3 times in total.
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Post by libraryanne »

Oh dear a poetry project I can't resist... :D

I'd be very happy to be your DPL again for this one.


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Post by annise »

And I'll set it up. Back soon

Anne
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Post by annise »

All done - happy recording :D

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Post by NoelBadrian »

Goodness me, that was a quicker response than I expected!
Thank you both. :D
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Post by NoelBadrian »

Hello Betty and Anne,
I am a bit in a quandry about how to put the "Intro and Outro". The book has 4 or possibly 5? "Chapters" with
2 to 5 sub-chapters or parts and then the actual "sections" or poems.
Do you think I need to say something like
"Section 1 of Poetry of Thomas Moore. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], "
"Chapter 1, Irish Melodies, - Oh! Blame not the Bard
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"Section 40 of Poetry of Thomas Moore. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], "
"Chapter 1, National Airs, - Oft in the Stilly Night
And for the sake of cataloguing, should the "Chapter" and "Part" be somehow shown in the titles? I have indicated where these groupings are in the "Notes" but am not sure if this is enough.
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Post by annise »

The notes field doesn't show in the catalogue - it's just for production notes .
It's difficult to say exactly because you have 2 different types of verses . Personally with the earlier ones I wouldn't bother with the what seem to me artificial headings - like "national poems" etc unless you planned to read more than 1 poem per section. Are you ?

What were you planning to do with Llalla Rookh etc?

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Post by NoelBadrian »

Hi,
I think perhaps we can drop the Chapter designation and just go with the subheadings?
I think I would like to at least keep the headings "Irish Melodies, National Airs and Sacred Songs" as these were the names of the original collections in which they were published.
My inclination is to read each poem separately even though some are very short.
With Lalla Rookh, as it is not the complete poem (Also: The Loves of the Angels etc.), I think I will read each section separately as it is given in the Text.
I will have a look at his collected works volumes to check which should be grouped together.
https://archive.org/stream/poeticalworksoft00mooreth#page/178/mode/1up - is useful.

Perhaps like this?

"Section 1 of Poetry of Thomas Moore. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], "
Irish Melodies, - Oh! Blame not the Bard
End of Section 1
====================
"Section 93 of Poetry of Thomas Moore. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], "
Lalla Rookh, The Veiled Prophet ..., The Harem
End of Section 93
====================
"Section 120 of Poetry of Thomas Moore. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], "
The Light of the Harem, The Georgian's Song
End of Lalla Rookh
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Post by annise »

That sounds fine :D .
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Post by NoelBadrian »

Hello Betty,
Well, here we go, with the Introduction ready for your attention.

Anne, the UPLOADER link is not showing up in the first post - not a problem really as I can work around it. Also, I miss-counted and there are three spare sections at the end of the list.
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Post by annise »

? the link shows for me , maybe some temp server glitch ?

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Post by NoelBadrian »

annise wrote:? the link shows for me , maybe some temp server glitch ?

Anne
Hi Anne,
It is fine now. The text was there but did not show as a hyperlink - i forgot I could edit the thing and just added a space after the colon to make it show up :D
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Post by libraryanne »

Hi Noel,
The introduction is PL OK!

A rather lengthy introduction :!: I'll prefer the actual poems. :)

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Post by NoelBadrian »

Hi Betty,
Well, here is the first poem for PL.
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Post by libraryanne »

Ahh Section 1 is PL OK! :clap:

Marvelous!

Betty
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