The James Thomson Page

Portrait of Melancholy

( 1834 - 1882 )


Major Works
The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems ( 1880 ).
Vane's Story and Other Poems ( 1881 ).
A Voice from the Nile and Other Poems ( 1884 ).
Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery: Selected Prose of James Thomson. Edited by William David Schaeffer. California, 1967.
Four Poems On Line. From Oxford Book of English Verse.

About Thomson
H. S. Salt, Life of James Thomson. Reeves and Turner, 1889.
William David Schaeffer, James Thomson: Beyond "The City". California, 1965.
James Thomson from the Victorian Web.

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