03115nam 22006253u 450 991045317300332120210111190937.01-84631-337-6(CKB)1000000000541176(EBL)380752(OCoLC)437241545(SSID)ssj0000878081(PQKBManifestationID)11465878(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000878081(PQKBWorkID)10812331(PQKB)10803868(SSID)ssj0000184928(PQKBManifestationID)11169230(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184928(PQKBWorkID)10206129(PQKB)11653501(UkCbUP)CR9781846313370(MiAaPQ)EBC380752(EXLCZ)99100000000054117620130418d1999|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrJames Thomson[electronic resource] Essays for the TercentenaryLiverpool :Liverpool University Press,2000.1 online resource (285 p.)Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 35 ;v.v. 35Description based upon print version of record.0-85323-954-1 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 PatriotismThomson in the 1790s'That is true fame': A Few Words about Thomson's Romantic Period Popularity; Notes on Contributors; IndexJames 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 Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 35Thomson, JamesScotlandIntellectual life18th centuryScotlandIn literatureElectronic books.Thomson, James.821/.5Terry Richard883385Terry RichardAU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910453173003321James Thomson1973172UNINA