James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary

doi:10.5949/UPO9781846313370

This is the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to the works of the eighteenth-century Scottish poet James Thomson. The volume is divided into two sections, the first addressing Thomsons writings themselves, and the second the reception of his works after his death and their influence on later writers. The first section contains essays analysing the politics and aesthetics of Thomsons major poems and also a reevaluation of Thomson as a heroic dramatist. The second section capitalises on the certainty felt by many in Thomsons own century that the poet, especially through his most successful poem The Seasons, had won for himself an indelible fame. This volume provides a definitive reappraisal of his achievement for our own times.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Illustrations
pp vi-vi

Introduction: Thomson's ‘fame’
pp 1-14

Part 1 - Works

‘O Sophonisba! Sophonisba o!’: Thomson the Tragedian
pp 15-34

‘Can Pure Description Hold the Place of Sense?’: Thomson's Landscape Poetry
pp 35-66

Thomson and Shaftesbury
pp 67-92

The Seasons and the Politics of Opposition
pp 93-116

James Thomson and the Progress of the Progress Poem: From Liberty to The Castle of Indolence
pp 117-140

Part 2 - Posterity

Thomson and the Druids
pp 141-164

James Thomson and Eighteenth-Century Scottish Literary Identity
pp 165-190

Britannia's Heart of Oak: Thomson, Garrick and the Language of Eighteenth-Century Patriotism
pp 191-216

Thomson in the 1790s
pp 217-246

‘That is true fame’: A Few Words about Thomson's Romantic Period Popularity
pp 247-270

Notes on Contributors
pp 271-274

Index
pp 275-279

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