Word: lalla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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England." Though Lalla Rookh, a lushly exotic verse-chronicle of Oriental tribesmen and their passions, testified indirectly to a revival of his libertarianism and brought him his greatest contemporary success, he outlived his fame. Harassed by financial difficulties, weakened mentally in his last years, he died in 1852. A statue, raised to his memory by popular subscription in Dublin, turned out after its erection to have been cast in inferior metal, soon rusted ignobly in the Irish rains...
...marble staircase transported from his Fifth Avenue home. Nearby are the houses of Clifford V. Brokaw Jr., Philip Gardiner, Morgan J. O'Brien, Samuel Riker. Just beyond Tucker's Town are Bermuda's two literary shrines: Tom Moore's House, where the Irish author of Lalla Rookh, "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" lived for one year; and Prospero's Cave, a spectacular grotto that is traditionally the site of the magic banquet in The Tempest, actually where aquatic Cinemactress Annette Kellerman made Neptune's Daughter and used to give- shapely exhibitions...