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Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
Online publication date:
November 2011
Print publication year:
2000
Online ISBN:
9781846313370
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5949/UPO9781846313370
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
Series:
Liverpool English Texts and Studies
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Book description

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 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 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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