LEADER 03115nam 22006253u 450 001 9910453173003321 005 20210111190937.0 010 $a1-84631-337-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000541176 035 $a(EBL)380752 035 $a(OCoLC)437241545 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000878081 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11465878 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000878081 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10812331 035 $a(PQKB)10803868 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000184928 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11169230 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184928 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10206129 035 $a(PQKB)11653501 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846313370 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC380752 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000541176 100 $a20130418d1999|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJames Thomson$b[electronic resource] $eEssays for the Tercentenary 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 225 1 $aLiverpool English Texts and Studies, 35 ;$vv.v. 35 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-85323-954-1 327 $aTitle 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 327 $aThomson in the 1790s'That is true fame': A Few Words about Thomson's Romantic Period Popularity; Notes on Contributors; Index 330 $aJames Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary is the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to the works of the eighteenth-century Scottish poet James Thomson. The volume is divided into two sections, the first addressing Thomson's writings themselves, and the second the reception of his works after his death and their influence on later writers. The first section contains essays analysing the politics and aesthetics of Thomson's major poems and also a reevaluation of Thomson as a heroic dramatist. The second section capitalises on the certainty felt by many in Thomson's own century that 410 0$aLiverpool English Texts and Studies, 35 606 $aThomson, James 607 $aScotland$xIntellectual life$y18th century 607 $aScotland$xIn literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aThomson, James. 676 $a821/.5 700 $aTerry$b Richard$0883385 702 $aTerry$b Richard 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453173003321 996 $aJames Thomson$91973172 997 $aUNINA