Anglo-Scottish poet and playwright; while his descriptive poem, The Seasons (1726-30), was perhaps the most popular poem of the eighteenth century, the poets tended to admire more his Spenserian burlesque, The Castle of Indolence (1748).

REFERENCES TO James Thomson:

Walter Scott to William Clerk, 3 September 1790 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

John Arnot to Peter Reid, 24 April 1798 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 14 August 1800 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Walter Scott to James Ballantyne, 12 April 1805 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 13 April 1805 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Walter Scott to George Ellis, 8 October 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Thomas Campbell to John Murray, 28 January 1809 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

John Murray to Lord Byron, 8 February 1814 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Robert Southey to Chauncey Hare Townshend, 22 July 1816 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 15 February 1817 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Sydney Smith to Douglas Smith, [Summer 1820] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [17 September 1823] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Robert Southey, “Memoir: Westminster School,” 29 August 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)