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
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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 Production | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | The volume's subscribers come from Lerwick, London, and places in between. It includes new material as well as most of the poems from Campbell's earlier volume; the same quotation from Thomson
adorns the... |
Textual Production | Jane Johnson | Here JJ
mixed the intellectual or spiritual with the practical: the same page bears a recipe for syllabub and the sentiment I had rather be a favourite of Angels than of men, but I believe... |
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. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gilding | Her title-page quotes Thomson
on the young mind fed by the light of truth, and Virgil
on being made a poet. The book cost half a crown and was sold by the author herself at... |
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... |
Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press
, with a quotation from Francis Bacon
on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare
, Swift
, Prior
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, Edward Young |
Textual Features | Dorothea Celesia | Though the poem, in heroic couplets, turns at the end to praise of virtue, its notion of indolence is more positive than that of James Thomson
in The Castle of Indolence, 1748. In leisurely... |
Textual Features | Mary Whateley Darwall | |
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... |
Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | These are not narratives, but more like dramatised scenes from a child's daily life, with emphasis on food, play, and other pleasures. The vocabulary is limited, inessentials pared away, and the short sentences, often in... |
Textual Features | Eliza Haywood | EH
's socio-political allegory stands virtually alone in her oeuvre in its attempt to reproduce the political instrumentality of Manley
's scandal fiction during the reign of Anne. Ballaster, Ros. Seductive Forms. Women’s Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740. Clarendon Press. 157 |
Reception | Jane Austen | |
Occupation | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, Elizabeth Boyd
, Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Chandler
, Isaac Watts
, Laurence Eusden
(for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson |
Timeline
April 1726: James Thomson published his georgic or pastoral...
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April 1726
James Thomson
published his georgic or pastoralpoemWinter.
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.
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.
2 August 1740: James Thomson's masque Alfred the Great was...
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2 August 1740
James Thomson
's masqueAlfred 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.
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 allegoricalpoem in Spenserian
stanzas, which had been about fifteen years in the making.
Texts
Thomson, James. Winter. J. Millan, 1726.