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| | AllRefer.com - James Thomson, 17001748, Scottish poet (English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
 | | Educated at Edinburgh, he went to London, took a post as tutor, and became acquainted with such literary celebrities as Gay, Arbuthnot, and Pope. |
 | | In The Seasons, Thomson's faithful, sensitive descriptions of external nature were a direct challenge to the urban and artificial school of Pope and influenced the forerunners of romanticism, such as Gray and Cowper. |
 | | His other important poems are Liberty (173536), a tribute to Britain, and The Castle of Indolence (1748), written in imitation of Spenser and reflecting the poet's delight in idleness. |
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