Author:James Thomson (1700-1748)

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James Thomson
(1700–1748)

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Scottish poet and dramatist

Works

Poetry

For ever, Fortune
The Seasons (1726–1730)
The Smoaker Smoak'd
Ode to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton (1727)
Britannia (1728)
Liberty (1734–1736)
Agamemnon (1738)
The Castle of Indolence (1748)

Anthologized:

In Poems and Extracts (1905) by William Wordsworth:
Hymn on Solitude

"Thus safely low, my Friend, thou canst not fall"

"As those we love decay, we die in part"

Drama

The Tragedy of Sophonisba (1730)
Edward and Eleonora (1739) - prohibited by the Lord Chamberlain
Alfred: A Masque] (1740), co-authored with David Mallet, and which contains the song Rule, Britannia!
Tancred and Sigismunda: A Tragedy (1745)

Works about Thomson

"Life of Thomson" by Robert Shiells in Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift (1753) edited by Theophilus Cibber (disputed)
"Thomson, James (1700-1748)," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
“Thomson, James (1700-1748)” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).
"Thomson, James (1700-1748)," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.

Parodies of Thomson

Imitation III in A Pipe of Tobacco by Isaac Hawkins Browne

On his works

"Seasons, The," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Works by this author published before January 1, 1924 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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