Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
55 (1783): 152
James Thomson
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Standard Name: Thomson, James,, 1700 - 1748
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Georgiana Fullerton | She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld
and Maria Edgeworth
. Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean
play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later... |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Martha Fowke | She formed close links with a group of male poets who held opposition political views: James Thomson
, Aaron Hill
(who was corresponding with her by June 1721), Richard Savage
(with whom she was exchanging... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes James Thomson
. Uncharacteristically, BH
offers meticulous description of landscape and works of art. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Boyd | A first prologue addresses Pope
, and invokes the ghosts of Shakespeare
(The Wonder, as the Glory of the Land) and Dryden
(Shakespear's Freind) as mentors to EB
's performance in... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Brooke | Brooke's preface said she had drawn on the book of Ruth, on the Palemon and Lavinia inset story in James Thomson
's Seasons, and on an opera by Favart
. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Latter | The first letter, the earliest piece in the volume, was said to have been written seventeen years ago at the age of seventeen: to Myra, which suggests that ML
may have been one among... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Medora Gordon Byron | Alexander Pope
is quoted on the title-page (An Essay on Criticism), James Thomson
at the head of the first chapter, John Langhorne
for another chapter. The novel opens in the new style of... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | She dedicated the volume to Jane, Duchess of Gordon
. Gordon was well known as a social and political mover. Her reputation included great beauty, quick repartee, excellent business sense, astute match-making, and also coarse... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Frederick Clark | The title-page of the first volume quotes Mary Robinson
writing on the heart's sufferings, and that of the last volume quotes James Thomson
on the eventual reward for suffering of the noble few. The... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | When it was printed, each of its five parts was headed with a prose Argument. In a style reminiscent of James Thomson
(whose name is invoked Grant, Anne. Poems on Various Subjects. Printed for the Author by J. Moir, 1803. 40 |
Timeline
April 1726: James Thomson published his georgic or pastoral...
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April 1726
James Thomson
published his georgic or pastoral poem Winter.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
95
1729: The publisher Andrew Millar, a Scotsman,...
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1729
The publisher Andrew Millar
, a Scotsman, established his printing house at 141 The Strand, London.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
184
8 June 1730: James Thomson published by subscription The...
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8 June 1730
James Thomson
published by subscription The Seasons as a four-fold poem, with A Hymn on the Seasons and William Kent
's illustrations.
Thomson, James, 1700 - 1748. Winter. J. Millan, 1726.
xxi
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
4: 367n17
2 August 1740: James Thomson's masque Alfred the Great was...
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2 August 1740
James Thomson
's masque Alfred the Great was first staged, in a special performance for the Prince and Princess of Wales: its pronounced patriotism was of the kind tied to the current political opposition.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
2 August 2010
May 1748: Only a few months before his death, James...
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May 1748
Only a few months before his death, James Thomson
published The Castle of Indolence, an allegorical poem in Spenserian
stanzas, which had been about fifteen years in the making.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Texts
Thomson, James, 1700 - 1748. Winter. J. Millan, 1726.