Plamondon, Marc R., editor. Representative Poetry Online. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/.
James Thomson
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Standard Name: Thomson, James,, 1700 - 1748
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The novel begins without preliminary paratext. An epigraph from James Thomson
(Ah! little think the gay licentious proud . . .) declares sympathy for the underdog, but this is not, as the title... |
Textual Production | Jane Marcet | The Seasons, Stories for Very Young Children, 1832-3, went through many editions. Like James Thomson
before her, JM
began with winter. |
Textual Production | Jan Morris | The title comes from James Thomson
's Rule, Britannia, 1740: When Britain first at heaven's command / Arose from out the azure main, her guardian angels sang of ruling the waves, of never being slaves. |
Literary responses | Sarah Wentworth Morton | Julie Ellison
, who traces in Ouâbi the influence of male British poets like Thomson
and Goldsmith
, and their sentimental, topographical, masculinist traditions, Ellison, Julie. “Race and Sensibility in the Early Republic: Ann Eliza Bleecker and Sarah Wentworth Morton”. Subjects and Citizens, edited by Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University Press, pp. 57-86. 60 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Plumptre | AP
quotes Pope
on her title-page (about indifference to fame) and Shakespeare
, Thomson
, Savage
, and others as chapter-headings. She sets her novel around the lakes of Killarney in Ireland. Antonia is... |
Wealth and Poverty | Radagunda Roberts | She left the stock, the house, and several keepsakes to her sister, to her nephew Alfred William both her inkstand and her copy of John Hawkesworth
's translation of Fénelon
's Télémaque (apparently recognizing William... |
Textual Features | Sarah, Lady Piers | Here she praises England (like James Thomson
later) for its landscape, climate, and system of government. English weather, in which the seasons succeed each other with calm and regularity, becomes an image for the peaceable... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare
, Milton
, Pope
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, William Mason
, John Langhorne
, Burns
, Erasmus Darwin
, Edward Young |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Smith | This poem moves from Romantic natural description with a touch of Thomson
(From ev'ry bough, from ev'ry jutting rock / The chrystals hang;—the torrent's roar has ceas'd, —/ As if that voice which call'd... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
: later on Pope
, Thomson
, Thomas Tickell
, Charles Cotton
, and others are quoted too. Characters include a seducer and promiser-breaker who dies in a duel. The central... |
Education | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
grew up under her mother's eye, and was educated through both reading and social contact. She later remembered reading Henry Mackenzie
's The Man of Feeling at fourteen and fearing she might not cry... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's reputation persisted for some time after her death. Mary Scott
praised her highly in The Female Advocate, 1774. John Duncombe
(though her posthumous publication was too late for inclusion in his Feminiad... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | The title-page quotes James Thomson
. The preface declares a serious, anxious, and most sincere desire to inculcate respect and tenderness towards all the inferior creatures. Watts, Susanna. The Insects in Council. Hurst, Chance; A. Cockshaw. prelims |
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