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Lalla Rookh

by Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore’s publishers, Longmans, agreed to pay him three thousand pounds for Lalla Rookh before he had written it, the most ever paid for a poem, and it came out in 1817. Its four verse tales are told by a young poet to a Mughal princess, the daughter of Aurangzeb, on her journey from Delhi to Kashmir to marry a king she has never seen. The poet turns out to be the king.

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Reading time
About 5 hours
Where to find it
On the Poetry shelves
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #76794. In the public domain in the United States.

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