Excerpt from "Thomas Moore" Anecdotes: Being Anecdotes, Bon-Mots, and Epigrams, From the "Journal" Of Thomas Moore Seems to become. Worst of all, he has lost his rank as the national poet of Ireland, partly from the emergence of new ideals among his countrymen, but chiefly, it must be owned, from the discovery that there is little specifically Celtic in his genius except his wit and animation; and, in particular, that he is totally devoid of that priceless quality, Celtic Magic. It cannot be, however, that oblivion will in the long run be allowed to overtake so interesting a literary figure. As the poet of the Ireland of his day, and not less of English parliamentary liberalism, Moore ought always to remain a conspicuous figure in national as well as literary history. It is impossible to replace him in anything near his old position. An age that has fed upon Wordsworth and Shelley, Tennyson and Browning, will not be deeply moved by Moore. But, apart from the poets who mould opinion, and are, as one of them said, the unacknowledged legislators of the world, an honourable place remains for poets of the library, who embalm the spirit of their own age, and hand its volatile spirit down to posterity in a compact and clarified form. Such a poet was Moore, the best method of perpetuating whose fame, apart from the actual re impression of his writings, is to show by a clear account of his life and literary activity the important position which he held in the worlds of letters and politics of his own day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.