Show lallah allah rookh Rook lill centenary Is the war holding back any poem comparable with lallah rookh tho the publication of which was delayed by the waterloo campaign and took placa just a I 1 century ago perhaps Perli aps few read the famous oriental romance nowadays but moores reputation when he wrote it was such that ho he was able to sell it when he had scarce put pen to paper murray offered 2000 guineas for it but the poets friends thought this too little and approached longman that the price should be not less than the largest amount over ever paid for a poem that said longman was the paid for rokeby 1 I and orf that basis a bargain was as struck the publishers only stipulation being g that moores poem should bo be equal to t scotts in length even so longman had the best of the bargain seven largo large editions were sold within a year find and a quarter ofa of a century later lon longmans still regarded lallah rookh as the cream of copyrights manchester guardian |