Abstract
The article deals firstly with the studying of Thomas Moore creative power in the context of the development tendencies of Russia literature in 1820-1830-years. It was also noted the Irish Melodies influence on the appearance or the Irish theme in the country periodicals and intensification of free-thinking motives in Russia poetry. There were also disclosed reasons of the eastern tale «Lalla Rouch» popularity in Russia which were corresponding to the blossoming of the Russian romantic orientalism and to the tendencies of the romantic poets investigation of the national originality by means of taking into account folk-lore and ethnography. In spite of the fact that the majority of early Thomas Moore translations into Russian were prosaic and were not done from the original works but from French middle translations the poetic works of the English author has become widely famous in Russia which can be proved by the appearance of reminiscences and traditions of Thomas Moore creative work in Russia romantic literature and including T. Moore poetry into the programme of educational establishments. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s4p105
Highlights
Thomas Moore’s first steps into the literary world were made with the translation of Odes of Anacreon and the creation of the original poems with the epicure, dominantly erotic content, - these works formed such author’s books as “Odes of Anacreon” (1800) and “Poetical works” (1801)
Thomas Moore deserved the literary popularity in Europe due to “Irish melodies” which were published by separate editions, from 1807 and during a period more than a quarter of the century
Moore was taken by the Russian readers as one of the most outstanding representatives of the English Romanticism
Summary
Thomas Moore’s first steps into the literary world were made with the translation of Odes of Anacreon and the creation of the original poems with the epicure, dominantly erotic content, - these works formed such author’s books as “Odes of Anacreon” (1800) and “Poetical works” (1801). During these years young Moore deserved the reputation of the erotic poet in the classical style, and started to be called Thomas the Little. Thomas Moore was not accompanied with the vision of the great legacy of the living classic writer, because many of his compositions in the 1820 years were known to the Russian literature society due to the poor French translations or even stayed unknown
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