Logan Republican | 1904-01-16 | Page 5 | Writing of "Lalla Rookh"

WRITING OF "LALLA ROOKH." How Famous Irish Poet Was Given Chance to Do His Best, It has often been charged thnt publishing pub-lishing houses are blind to thu promise prom-ise of genius In writers. Thnt this wns not so In the case of Thomns Moore, the noted Iilsh poet. Is well Known. Moore wns comparatively an unknown man when n publishing house, detecting the Mist jKiasllilll-ties jKiasllilll-ties thnt lny dormant In the man and anxious to get something better out of him tlnui the stun" he wns ut the time turning out, offered him $16,000 for a lengthy poem, tho subject to bu chosen by himself. Moore was then a poor man, and the sum mentioned meant for him compnrotlo wealth. He shook the dust of Loudon off his feet, burled himself among tho Derbyshire Derby-shire dales and set to work assiduously assiduous-ly to saturate his mind with Orlcntnl facts nnd hnngery. The result was seen later on In "l.alla Hookh," a work so true to nature that It was translated Into Persia n and sung ns a gcnulno nntlxc product Ion In tho streets and cnles of Ispahan.