A

"After the Battle" (quotation), 47.
Alciphron, 95, 105 n., 156.
Alliance, The Holy, 66, 67, 70.
Anacreon, Odes of (Moore's Translation), 18, 20, 22, 23, 24,
26, 38, 73, 171.
Anglesey, Lord, 146.
Anthologia Hibernica, 4.
Atkinson, Joseph, 19, 27.
Auckland, Lord, 164.

B

Belfast Commercial Chronicle, 43.
Bermuda, 30, 31.
Bishop, Sir Henry, 55 n., 195 n.
Blake, 24.
Blessington, Lady, 124.
Boswell, 127.
Bride of Abydos, The (Byron), 59, 181.
"Brown, Thomas," 61, 62, 105.
Burke, 188.
Burns, 23, 181, 182.
Byron, 1, 38, 40, 58, 59, 71, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 104, 115,
116, 117, 126, 127, 128-134, 137, 169 n.., 172, 174.
Byron, Life of, 126-127, 133.
Byron's Memoirs, 92, 95, 115-120, 124.
Byron, Lady, 117.

C

Campbell, 71, 130, 173.
"Canadian Boat-song," 37, 176.
Canning, 110, 135, 136.
——-, Lady, 135.
Captain Rock, History of, 70, 110, 113-14, 115.
Carpenter (publisher), 28, 31, 36, 40, 45, 46, 61, 64.
Castlereagh, Lord, 45, 62, 94, 110.
Catholicism, 69, 140.
Catholic Emancipation, 67, 148, 159.
Chantrey, 92, 173.
Charlotte, Princess of Wales, 62.
Childe Harold (Byron), 106, 130.
Church of Ireland, 110.
Clarach, Seaghan, 188, 189.
Clare, Lord, 133.
Coleridge, 23, 24, 175, 176.
Corsair, The (Byron), 71, 132.
Corruption and Intolerance, 45.
Corry, Isaac, 48, 70, 115.
Cowper, 24, 89, 175.
Crabbe, 23, 24, 175.
Curran, 14.
——-, Sarah, 14, 15, 185.

D

Dante, 104.
"Dear Harp of my Country" (quotation), 186.
Donegal, Lady, 30, 36, 37, 44, 51, 53, 75, 97, 99, 169 n.
Doyle, Colonel, 118.
"Drink to her who long" (quotation), 182.
Dryden, 110.
Dyke, Miss E., 49, 50, 51.
——-, Miss H., 49.

E

Edgeworth, Miss, 76.
Edinburgh Review, The, 38, 48, 71, 80, 121, 141.
Emancipation, Catholic, 67, 148, 159.
Emmet, Robert, 9-15, 87, 181, 185.
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (Byron), 127.
Epicurean, The, 79, 95, 122.
Epistles and Odes, 176.
"Erin, the smile and the tear in thine eye," 177.
Evenings in Greece, 122.
Examiner, The, 80.

F

Fables, 106 seq.
"Farewell, but whenever you welcome the hour" (quotation), 180.
"Feast of Roses at Cashmere, The" (quotation), 88.
"Fire Worshippers, The" (quotation), 13, 47, 84, 87.
Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, Life of, 16, 137, 145.
FitzGibbon, Lord Chancellor, 11.
Fitzwilliam, Lord, 9.
Fletcher, 24.
Fragments of College Exercises, 26.
Freeman's Journal, 43.
Fudge Family in Paris, The, 77, 109.
Fudge Family in Italy, The, 94.
Fudges in England, The, 105, 156.

G

George, Prince of Wales, 20, 21, 35, 60, 63, 109, 110.
Giaour, The (Byron), 58.
Gibson, Mr. Andrew, 43, 191.
Godfrey, Miss, 36, 41, 44, 52, 53, 59, 78, 81.
Goethe's Dr. Faustus, 140.
Goldsmith, 23, 188.
Grattan, 110, 136.
Gray, 23, 182.
Grey, Lord, 135, 136.
Griffin, Gerald, 147.
Guiccioli, Countess, 92.

H

Hardwicke, Lord, 32.
"Harp that once, The," 186.
Haydon (painter), 173.
Heath (engraver), 123, 124.
Hobhouse, 117, 118, 119, 120.
Holland, Lord, 116, 162.
Horace, 105.
Horton, Mr. Wilmot, 118.
Hudson, Edward, 16.
Hume, Dr. (Moore's friend), 20, 39, 40.
Hunt, Leigh, 71, 80, 85.

I

Intercepted Letters; or The Twopenny Postbag, 60.
Ireland, History of, 142, 156, 167.
Irish folk-songs, 42, 177.
Irish Melodies (see Melodies).
"Irish Peasant to his Mistress, The," 47.
Irish verse, 179.
Irving, Washington, 153.

J

Jackson (painter), 92.
Jeffrey (Edinburgh Review), 38, 39, 71, 73, 80, 121, 128, 141,
166.

K

Kearney, Dr., 18.
Kinnaird, Douglas, 116.

L

Lalla Rookh, 13, 24, 58, 59, 64, 73, 74, 77, 84, 85, 86, 90, 95,
104, 115, 122, 131, 180.
Landor, 175.
Lansdowne, Marquis of, 75, 76, 78, 80, 96, 97, 112, 113, 119, 120,
125, 126, 135, 137, 138, 154, 155, 165, 169 n.
Lecky, Mr., 9.
Leigh, Mrs., 117, 118.
Leinster Journal, The, 48, 49.
Lessing, 25.
"Little, Mr.," 17.
Little, Poetical Works of the late Thomas, 17, 25, 38, 128.
"Little Grand Lama, The," 106.
Lockhart, 127.
Longmans (publishers), 73, 74, 80, 93, 96, 97, 115, 116, 120, 121,
123, 126, 141, 155, 169.
Loves of the Angels, The, 73, 97, 98-105, 122.
Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth), 23.

M

Mackintosh, Sir James, 94, 141.
Mangan, 179.
McNally, Leonard, 87.
Marryat, 146.
Maud (Tennyson), 175.
"Meeting of the Waters, The," 44.
Melbourne, Lord, 154.
Melodies, Irish, 12, 41-45, 46, 47, 55, 64, 65-68, 71, 79, 90,
149, 157, 175, 176, 177, 181, 184, 186, 188, 189.
Melologue upon National Music, 49, 71, 193 n.
Milman, 141.
Milton, 104, 106.
Moira, Lord, 19, 20, 24, 26, 27, 35, 36, 53, 54, 55, 81.

Moore, Thomas,

birth and family history, 2 seq.;
precocious boyhood, 3;
early verses, 4;
schooldays, 3-9;
Trinity College, 8;
association with Robert Emmet, 7 seq.;
entered at Middle Temple, 16, 18 seq.;
literary activity, 17;
acquaintances in London, 19;
presented to the Prince of Wales, 20;
increasing social success, 22;
publishes Odes of Anacreon, 22;
Poetical Works of the late Thomas Little, 25;
Fragments of College Exercises, 26;
connection with Lord Moira, 26 seq.;
goes to Bermuda, 27;
visits America, 32, 35; widespread fame, 34, 35;
returns to England, 35;
Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems, 36;
attacked by Edinburgh Review, 38;
challenges Jeffrey to a duel, 39;
returns to Dublin, 40;
inception of the Irish Melodies, 41 seq.;
Corruption and Intolerance, 45;
The Sceptic, 46;
writes opera M.P. or The Blue Stocking, 50;
marriage, 61;
retires to the country, 54;
commences Lalla Rookh, 59;
Intercepted Letters, 60;
Sacred Songs, 64;
his reputation at its height, 71, 74;
contributes to the Edinburgh Review, 71;
Lalla Rookh, 74;
retires to Sloperton, 75;
The Fudge Family in Paris, 77;
financial troubles, 77;
birth of a son, 78;
begins the Life of Sheridan, 79;
leaves England to escape imprisonment for debt, 80;
declines offers of assistance from his friends, 80;
life on the Continent, 91 seq.;
visit to Byron, 91;
lionised abroad, 95;
end of his financial embarrassments, 96;
Loves of the Angels, 97;
returns to England, 97;
Odes on Cash, Catholics, and other matters, 105;
The Fudges in England, 105;
Fables for the Holy Alliance, 105;
Rhymes on the Road, 105;
makes a tour through Ireland, 112;
History of Captain Rock and his Ancestors, 113;
difficulties with regard to Byron's Memoirs, 115 seq.;
Life of Sheridan, 120;
contributes to The Times, 121;
death of his father, 124;
story of his quarrel with Byron, 128-30;
his friendship with Byron, 130-134;
Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, 137;
Travels of an Irish Gentleman in search of a Religion, 137;
History of Ireland, 142;
end of his literary career, 142;
visit to Sir Walter Scott, 144;
honoured in Ireland, 145 seq.;
invited to enter Parliament, 146;
receives a pension of £300 a year, 155;
domestic troubles, 157 seq.;
culmination of his sorrows, 167;
illness and death, 168; general appreciation, 171 seq.

Reputation on the Continent, 1, 95;
popularity, 1, 95, 143 seq., 151-4;
causes of his popularity, 171 seq.;
his own estimate of his work, 2, 90, 174 seq.;
his wide reading, 17, 72, 73, 79, 141;
literary models, 23;
a careful craftsman, 24;
characteristics of his verse, 25, 26, 104, 105, 180 seq.;
his failures, 26, 46, 50;
licentiousness of his poetry, 38;
methods of composition, 75, 105-106;
limitations and defects of his poetry, 83 seq., 89, 104, 184,
187, 189;
essentially an amatory poet, 98;
his satiric verses, 105;
his lyrics, 175;
ease and variety of his rhythms, 175 seq.;
source of his rhythms, 176, 177;
his finest lyrics, 178, 186;
an artist in metre, 179;
comparison with other poets, 181, 182;
supremacy in the writing of lighter lyrics, 182-183;
uses of rhyme, 184;
his poetry understood by all, 187, 188;
connection with Irish literature, 188;
musical gifts, 5, 22, 171;
politics, 7 seq., 45, 82;
religious views, 8, 61, 62, 69, 72, 114, 137-140;
devotion to his parents and home, 21, 27, 28, 32, 35, 92, 162;
personal appearance, 22, 29, 147;
charm of manner, 22, 29, 49, 172 seq.;
friendships, 19, 32, 36, 40, 48, 92, 93, 130, 131, 166, 171, 172;
his acting, 48 seq.;
financial affairs, 60, 73, 74, 77, 79, 80, 95,