James Thomson

James Thomson Criticism

• Thomson, James (Vol. 29)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism
    • A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton: Introduction and Britannia: Introduction
    • Vision and Meaning in James Thomson
    • Religion and Poetry, 1660-1780
    • Thomson's Seasons
    • Conclusion: The Artistry of The Seasons
    • Observer and Observed in Eighteenth-Century Literature
    • From Accidie to Neurosis: The Castle of Indolence Revisited
    • James Thomson's Luxuriant Language
    • An introduction to The Plays of James Thomson
    • Scientific and Poetic Imagination in James Thomson's Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton
    • The Long Poem Obstructed
    • The Whig Sublime and James Thomson
    • The Castle of Indolence and the Opposition to Walpole
    • Last Years: The Castle of Indolence and Coriolanus, 1746-1748
    • Collins, Thomson, and the Whig Progress of Liberty
  • Further Reading
• Thomson, James (Vol. 40)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • On the Originality of The Seasons
    • The Castle of Indolence
    • Conclusion
    • Indications of a New Attitude toward Nature in the Poetry of the Eighteenth Century
    • The Poet as Teacher: Morality in The Seasons
    • Literary Criticism and Artistic Interpretation: Eighteenth-Century English Illustrations of The Seasons
    • James Thomson's Luxuriant Language
    • The Poet of Transition
    • Formal Balance in Thomson and Collins
  • Further Reading