in the time of British India. In George Eliot's 1871/1872 novel Middlemarch, it is said of the character Rosamond Vincy, "Her favorite poem was 'Lalla Rookh'" (Chapter 16). References External links – Summarises the four narratives. Text of "Paradise and the Peri" Lalla Rookh prepared for the web by Fran Pritchett The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore, including Lalla Rookh'' Poetry by Thomas Moore Mughal Empire in fiction Irish poems Narrative poems 1817 poems India in fiction Poems adapted into films