Identifier: cabinetirishlitwo00read (find matches)
Title: The cabinet of Irish literature; selections from the works of the chief poet, orators, and prose writers of Ireland
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Read, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1841-1878 Tynan, Katharine, 1861-1931 O'Connor, T. P. (Thomas Power), 1848-1929
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Publisher: London : The Gresham Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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mind; and it is not fair to criticisethe accent of his songs apart from the musicto which they are wi-itten; for the one is de-pendent on, modified by, and quite hiseparablefrom the other. In short, as Samuel Loverpoints out, even Moore is liable to be falselyread, when the ordinary accent is given to thereading, that is, when measured syUabicallyrather than rhythmically. This Lover amplyproves and illustrates by the example of The THOMAS MOOEE. 163 Minstrel Boy to the War is gone, given,marked in longs and shorts, showing that themusic is more than essential, and absolutelyincreases the power of the lines—the remark-able succession of long sounds in the noble airgiving a grandeur of effect to the poem whichis otherwise wanting. Tiius, as they would beread:— The minstrel boy to the war is gone,In the ranks of death youll find him;His fathers sword he has girded on,And his wild harp slung behind him. While, it is as follows, when accentuated by themusic:— Irish air—r/ic Moreen.
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wild harp slun Lover, who himself, in this respect, was onlysecond in Ireland to Moore, and free frommany of Moores defects, characterized TheIrish Melodies as that work, not only thecrowning wreath of its author, but among theglories of the land that gave him birth. Tothe finest national nnisic in the world he wrotethe finest lyrics; and if Ireland never produced,nor should ever produce, another lyric poet,sufficient for her glory is the name of ThomasMooi-e. Byron wrote:—Moore has a pecu-liarity of talent, or rather talents—poetry,music, voice, all his own; and an expressionin each which never was, nor will be, possessedby another. He was undoubtedly the greatestlyrist of his age; and of all song-writers,said Professor Wilson, that ever warbled, orchanted, or sung, the best, in our estimation,is verily none other than Thomas Moore.Lord John Eussells estimate of Moore was:Of English lyrical poets he is surely the first.Stopford A. Brooke writes: He had a slight,pretty, rarely tru

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