Irish Songs - Irish Songs

…He wrote beautiful and sad lyric poems on the themes of freedom, love, and memories. He is famous for his 10 volumes of Irish Songs (1807-34), which he wrote lyrics to popular folk songs from his hometown. Among them are the melancholy poems “The Last Rose of Summer” (Japanese title: “A Thousand Grasses in the Garden”), “Quiet Night,” and “The Harp That Rings in the Hall of Tara,” which are also known in Japan. He also showed talent in the romance of the exotic narrative poem “Lalla Rook” (1817), and satirical poems such as “Epistles and Odes” (1806) and “The Fages of Paris” (1818). His biography “Byron” (1830) and translation “Ode to Anacreon” (1800) are also excellent. …

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…自由，愛，思い出をテーマに美しくもの悲しい旋律の抒情詩を書いた。故郷のポピュラーな民謡に歌詞をつけた《アイルランド歌曲集》10巻(1807‐34)は有名で，なかに日本でも知られている哀愁の詩〈夏の最後のバラ〉(邦題〈庭の千草〉)，〈しずかな夜〉〈タラの館に鳴りしハープ〉などがある。このほかエキゾティックな物語詩《ララ･ルーク》(1817)のロマンスや，《書簡詩とオード》(1806)，《パリのファジ家》(1818)のような風刺詩に才能を発揮，伝記《バイロン》(1830)や翻訳《アナクレオンのオード》(1800)もすぐれている。…

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