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Born in September 11, 1700 / Died in August 27, 1748 / United Kingdom / English

Bibliography

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WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:

  • Winter. A Poem (London: Printed for J. Millan & sold by J. Roberts & N. Blandford, 1726).
  • Summer. A Poem (London: Printed for J. Millan, 1727).
  • A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton (London: Printed for J. Millan, 1727).
  • Spring. A Poem (London: Printed & sold by A. Millar & G. Strahan, 1728).
  • Britannia. A Poem, anonymous (London: Printed for T. Warner, 1729).
  • The Tragedy of Sophonisba. Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's Servants (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1730).
  • The Seasons (London: Printed for the author, 1730; revised and enlarged edition, London: Printed by A. Millar, 1744; revised again, 1746; Philadelphia: Printed & sold by Robert Bell, 1777).
  • Autumn. A Poem ... The Second edition (London: Printed by N. Blandford for J. Millan, 1730).
  • Antient [sic] and Modern Italy Compared: being the First Part of Liberty, a Poem (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1735).
  • Greece: being the Second Part of Liberty, a Poem (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1735).
  • Rome: being the Third Part of Liberty, a Poem (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1735).
  • Britain: being the Fourth Part of Liberty, a Poem (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1736).
  • The Prospect: being the Fifth Part of Liberty. A Poem (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1736).
  • A Poem to the Memory of the Right Honourable the Lord Talbot (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1737).
  • Agamemnon. A tragedy. Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1738).
  • The Works of Mr. Thomson, 2 volumes (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1738).
  • Edward and Eleonora. A tragedy. As it was to have been acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden (London: Printed for the author & sold by A. Millar, 1739).
  • Alfred: a Masque. Represented before Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Clieffden, on the first of August, 1740, by Thomson and David Mallet (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1740).
  • Tancred and Sigismunda. A Tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1745).
  • The Castle of Indolence: an Allegorical Poem. Written an Imitation of Spenser (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1748).
  • Coriolanus. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749).

 

Editions and Collections

  • The Works of James Thomson, 4 volumes, edited by George Lyttelton (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1750). ?
  • The Works of James Thomson, with his last corrections and improvements. To which is prefixed an account of his life and writings, edited by Patrick Murdoch (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1762; revised edition, 1768; Boston: Little, Brown, 1865). ?
  • The Castle of Indolence and Other Poems, edited by Alan Dugald McKillop (Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas Press, 1961). ?
  • The Seasons, edited by James Sambrook (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981). ?
  • Liberty, The Castle of Indolence, and Other Poems, edited by Sambrook (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).

 

Play Production

  • Sophonisba, London, Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, 28 February 1730. ?
  • Agamemnon, London, Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, 6 April 1738. ?
  • Alfred, by Thomson and David Mallet, Cliefden, 1 August 1740; London, Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, 20 March 1745. ?
  • Tancred and Sigismunda, London, Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, 18 March 1745. ?
  • Coriolanus, London, Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, 13 January 1749.

 

Other

  •  "Of a Country Life," "Verses on Receiving a Flower from his Mistress," and "Upon Happiness," in The Edinburgh Miscellany: consisting of Original Poems, Translations, etc. By Various Hands (January 1720), I: 193-204. ?
  • "Hymn on Solitude," "A Paraphrase on the Latter Part of the Sixth Chapter of St. Matthew," "The Happy Man," and "The Incomparable Soporifick Doctor," in Miscellaneous Poems by Several Hands, publish'd by Mr. Ralph (London, 1729). ?
  • Preface to Areopagitica: A speech for the liberty of unlicens'd printing, to the Parliament of England. First published in the year 1644, by John Milton (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1738). ?
  • Prologue to Mustapha, by David Mallet (London, 1739).

 

Letters

  • James Thomson (1700-1748), Letters and Documents, edited by Alan Dugald McKillop (Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas Press, 1958). ?
  • McKillop, "Two More Thomson Letters," Modern Philology, 60 (November 1962): 128-130.