Moore was another lyrist whose poetry Scott greatly admired.

In Moore's case, as in Southey's, the contemporary estimate was higher than can now be maintained, but Moore is to-day underrated.

From what Scott says about him we conclude that the man's personality and his way of singing added much to the exquisiteness of his songs.

"He seems almost to think in music," Scott said, "the notes and words are so happily suited to each other";[299] and, "it would be a delightful addition to life if T.M.had a cottage within two miles of one."[300] Allan Cunningham was a young protege of Scott whose songs, "Its hame and it's hame," and "A wet sheet and a flowing sea," seemed to him "among the best going."[301] Another poet who received Scott's good offices was Hogg, whose relations with the greater man are described so vividly and at some points so amusingly by Lockhart.

Scott called him a "wonderful creature for his opportunities."[302] For the poet Crabbe, Scott, like Byron and Wordsworth,[303] had a steady and high admiration.