... sphere, persuading her “children” to exercise greater patriotism. She sways public opinion to effect improvement. Alone among writers of this period, James Thomson intuitively understood that no single voice had authority in the new politics and that all interventions were contingent. His 1729 Britannia...

... James Thomson: The Castle of Indolence and Other Poems. Edited by ALAN D. MCKILLOP.Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1961. Pp. xii + 222. $5.00. Since 1908, when James Thomson’s Seasons appeared in two definitive edi- tions, scholars have awaited a similar treatment of the lesser...

...John Edwin Wells Alan Dugald McKillop. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1942. Pp. viii + 192. $2.50. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 376 Rcviews The Background of Thomson’s “Seasons.” By ALANDUGALD hlc- KILLOP.Minneapolis...

... with an interest in the general contentions-and be left to wonder what is at issue. ANNE. HERTHOFF U n ivei-sit y ojMassa ch usel IS, nos t on The Unfolding $“The Seasons”: A Sttrdy cf James Thomson’s Poem. By KALPHCOHEN. Baltimore...

... Press, 1964. xi + 529 pp. $8.50. Enthusiasts for the poetry of Thomson are hard to find nowadays. Swift’s comment, that The Seasons “are all description, and nothing is doing; whereas Milton engages me in actions of the highest importance” (quoted p. 260), may express with some...

... from that of Alan McKillop’s The Background of Thomson’s “Seasons.” Her purpose, as stated in the first chapter, is to investigate “the possible relation between Thornson’s ideas about man and nature and his poetic techniques and achievements in The Seasons.” Her theory is also stated...

...Wilfred Stone George H. Thomson. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1967. 304 pp. $9.95. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 504 REVIEWS The Fiction of E. M. Forster. By GEORGEH. THOMSON.Detroit: Wayne State...

...Alan Dugald McKillop Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 THE EARLY HISTORY OF THOMSON’S LIBEXTI’ By ALANDUGALD MCKILLOP A full account of James Thomson’s Liberty would include some consideration of the poet’s studies in connection...

...Richard Harrier Patricia Thomson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1964. xiv + 298 pp. $7.50. Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 612 REVIEWS clus even less frequently. Panuccio shows individuality in his methodical...

.... In retrospect, these disturbances may be seen as disruptions of the Earth system as a whole, figured as increasingly far-reaching in the poems of James Thomson (chap. 2); John Dyer, James Grainger, and Richard Jago (chap. 3); and William Cowper, William Wordsworth, and Charlotte Smith (chap. 4). They include...

... of Spenserian imitators of the eighteenth century. Shelley’s imagery may come direct from Spenser; on the other hand it may come through men like Thomson, West, Beatty, or a host of lesser writers, all of whom steeped their heads in the Spenserian spring or drank of its waters as Fn artificial aid...

... the generic, sometimes the cognitive. She has chosen five poets- Thomson, Collins, Gray, Smart, and Cowper-for their intrinsic value as well as for the differences in the nature of their achievements. She studies the work of each of them in considerable detail in order to show the variety...

... “The Seasons.” By PATRICIA MEYERSPACKS. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Publi- cations, English Studies, No. 21, 1959. Pp. ix 3- 190. $4.00. The aim of Mrs. Spacks’s study is different from that of Alan McKillop’s The Background of Thomson’s “Seasons.” Her purpose...

..., but-as also for his incidental remarks on other poems by Thomson-studied copies of the author’s own issues, with which few critics have shown any considerable acquaintance and to which most have not had access. The Background manifests without exploitation a close intimacy...

... colours spreads on every place.” (2) Newton’s theory of optics offered material to the expository poets, who took upon themselves the burden of translating scientific information into terms understandable by literate but non-technically trained readers. Thomson’s To the Memory of Sir Isaac...

.... Questi sono, quando o per qualche via scel- 1 Max Lerner’s introduction to the Modem Library edition of The Prince and The Discourses is of much more value to the student of political science. 2See, for example, the Modern Library translation and that of N. H. Thomson, Oxford, 1897...

... on this subject. 6 See Jago’s Edge-H ill; Mallet’s Excursion; Thomson’s Seasons; and others. 7 Pope’s unblushing statement (in his Design of the Essay on Man) must shock believers in the “unuttcrable Me” school of psychology : “The sciecce of human nature is, like all other sciences, reduced...

... Thomson can help us to understand that canon. Modern Language Quarterly 61:2, June 2000. © 2000 University of Washington. MLQ 61.2-04Weinbrot.ak 5/26/00 3:52 PM Page 396 396 MLQ ❙ June 2000 For Kramnick, the eighteenth...

... (Miss Man- waring). At the same time Hagstrum’s findings fall in with and supplement several recent and valuable studies of neoclassical diction, imagery, and per- sonification. In a series of brilliant analyses of individual poems, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Collins, and Gray...

.... Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964. xi + 529 pp. $8.50. Enthusiasts for the poetry of Thomson are hard to find nowadays. Swift’s comment, that The Seasons “are all description, and nothing is doing; whereas Milton engages me in actions of the highest...