biography
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| lived:
| (1779–1852)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and the Middle Temple. His best-known work, Irish Melodies (1807–34), including such memorable poems as ‘The Last Rose of Summer’, was set to music and aroused sympathy for the Irish nationalists among London's nobility. His reputation at that time was on a par with that of Byron and Scott, and he was paid the then phenomenal sum of £3000 by Longmans for his narrative poem Lalla Rookh (1817). The recipient of Byron's memoirs, he burned them (with publisher John Murray), and later edited the Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1830). |
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