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Autore |
Terry Richard |
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Titolo |
James Thomson [[electronic resource] ] : Essays for the Tercentenary |
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (285 p.) |
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Collana |
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Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 35 ; ; v.v. 35 |
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Soggetti |
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Thomson, James |
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Scotland Intellectual life 18th century |
Scotland In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction: Thomson's 'fame'; Part 1: Works; 'O Sophonisba! Sophonisba o!': Thomson the Tragedian; 'Can Pure Description Hold the Place of Sense?': Thomson's Landscape Poetry; Thomson and Shaftesbury; The Seasons and the Politics of Opposition; James Thomson and the Progress of the Progress Poem: From Liberty to The Castle of Indolence; Part 2: Posterity; Thomson and the Druids; James Thomson and Eighteenth-Century Scottish Literary Identity; Britannia's Heart of Oak: Thomson, Garrick and the Language of Eighteenth-Century Patriotism |
Thomson in the 1790s'That is true fame': A Few Words about Thomson's Romantic Period Popularity; Notes on Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary 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 Thomson's 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 Thomson's major poems and also a reevaluation of Thomson as a heroic dramatist. The second section capitalises on the certainty felt by many in Thomson's own century that |
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