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Thomas Campbell

 

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Thomas Campbell : First discourse upon Poetry

Mary Berry, Journal, 26 June 1812: 'We dined with the Princess [of Wales] at Kensington. The company: Lady C. Lindsay, Lady C. Campbell, Mr. Lewis, Sir H. and Lady Davy, Sir J. Mackintosh, Sir H. Englefield, Mrs. and Miss Pole, Lord Glenbervie and Campbell the poet, who was to read his first discourse upon Poetry, which he had delivered at the Institution; he did so during that evening with very good effect [...] Poor Lewis was in a very bad humour, and did not know where to hide his head during the reading, so he pretended to be sleeping.'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Campbell      

  

Thomas Campbell : discourse on English poetry and poets

Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1814: 'I dined with Madame de Stael; nobody but Campbell the poet, Rocca, and her own daughter [...] After dinner, Campbell read to us a discourse of his upon English poetry and upon some of the great poets. There are always signs of a poet critic and of genius in all he does, often encumbered by too ornate a style.'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Campbell      

  

Elizabeth Barrett : Leila

Thomas Campbell to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 August 1822, in response to her having asked his opinion of her narrative poem Leila: 'the poem is open to many objections -- It bespeaks an amiable heart and an elegant mind -- but it is the work of an inexperienced imagination & though the versification & expression are such as should make me very loth to exhort you to give up poetical composition Yet I should decieve you if I anticipated the story and main effect of the poem being likely to be popularly admired -- I have marked one or two passages to which I particularly object -- I object in general to its lyric intermixtures -- The are the most difficult of all gems to set in a Narrative poem & should always be of the first water.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Campbell      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Walter Scott : review of Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming etc

Thomas Campbell to John Murray, 2 June 1809: 'I received the review, for which I thank you, and beg leave through you to express my best acknowledgements to the unknown reviewer. I do not by this mean to say that I think every one of his censures just [...] But altogether I am pleased with his manner, and very proud of his approbation. He reviews like a gentleman, a Christian, and a scholar.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Campbell      Print: Serial / periodical

 

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