McCue, K. (2017) ‘Difficult to imitate and impossible to equal’: Byron, Burns, Moore and the packaging of national song. Byron Journal, 45(2), pp. 113-126. (doi: 10.3828/bj.2017.18)
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Abstract
In the early 1810s, just before embarking on his Hebrew Melodies project, Byron engaged in a correspondence with the Scottish song editor George Thomson (1757–1851). While Byron chose not to engage in Thomson’s commission to write lyrics for his collections of Irish and Welsh songs, Thomson nonetheless published a number of Byron’s extant lyrics across his collections over the succeeding decades. This article traces how this happened, looks at Thomson’s final editorial choices and presentations of Byron’s lyrics, and reflects on the role of Byron as national songster alongside Thomson’s most significant poetic contributor, Robert Burns, and Byron’s great singer/songwriter friend Thomas Moore.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Lord Byron, national songs, Robert Burns, Thomas Moore. |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | McCue, Professor Kirsteen |
| Authors: | McCue, K. |
| Subjects: | M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature of music P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
| College/School: | College of Arts > School of Critical Studies > Scottish Literature |
| Journal Name: | Byron Journal |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press |
| ISSN: | 0301-7257 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1757-0263 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2017 Liverpool University Press |
| First Published: | First published in Byron Journal 45(2):113-126 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
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