As a serious poet, and the author of
Lalla Rookh
(1817),
The Loves of the Angels
(1823), and
Alciphron
(1839), Moore was perhaps overrated by his contemporaries. In spite of their brightness of fancy, metrical skill, and brilliant cleverness, they lack the greater elements of the highest poetry.
Moore's prose work begins, apart from his contributions to periodical literature, with the
Memoirs of Captain Rock
(1824),