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Article: The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron & Thomas Moore.(Book Review)
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron & Thomas Moore. By JEFFERY W. VAIL. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. xi + 251 pp. 33 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8018-6500-x.
This is the first substantive account of the interrelationship of Byron and Moore as friends, political allies, and kindred poets. It begins with Byron's first, tentative, imitations of Moore who was an already established man of letters; traces the extraordinary development of their literary symbiosis as lyricists and writers of oriental romances; then, by way of Moore's poetic portraits of Byron as the fallen angel Rubi (in The Loves of the Angels) and as a modern ...