James Thomson

This topographical poem in heroic couplets has many remarkable features: an early description of urban industrial conditions (as the poet opens by turning her back on the town for the village); a catalogue of flowers...

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...

Donna Landry , in her pioneering book about labouring-class woman poets, attributed to MC a religious conservatism which she said she would rather believe that Collier was assuming to please her patrons. She nevertheless finds...

William Enfield quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy . Her volume...

Julie Ellison , who traces in Ouâbi the influence of male British poets like Thomson and Goldsmith , and their sentimental, topographical, masculinist traditions, judges that the poem's vision of racial harmony depends on...

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...

In addition to quotation from Milton , Pope , and Thomson , this book has a Sterne an flavour, with passages titled from sights (like The Theatre Royal and The Merchants's Court) alternating with...

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 .

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...

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...

The title-page bears some lines from James Thomson beginning Ye good distrest! / Ye noble few!, which assure the good that their earthly trials and sufferings will be brief. A preface defends the...

Meanwhile in volume one, after the mother and daughter meet in ignorance of their relationship, they exchange somewhat similar histories of being orphaned (or supposedly orphaned), threatened with sexual violence, and undergoing actually violent emotional...

She dedicated the volume to Jane, Duchess of Gordon .

The title-page bears an epigraph from James Thomson , about the moral struggle of honour and aspiration against ease and luxury. It opens on an old-fashioned couple in their great Yorkshire house, Mr and Mrs...

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 sets out the fairly new idea that...