... The full ethereal round,
Infinite worlds disclosing to the view,
Shines out intensely keen, and, all one cope
Of starry glitter, glows from pole to pole.
        (The Seasons: Winter, 738-741)

1. The Castle of Indolence: Canto I (excerpt)
2. Hymn on Solitude
3. A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton
4. Rule Britannia
5. The Seasons: Summer (excerpt)
6. The Seasons: Winter (excerpt)

Biographical information

Given name: James
Family name: Thomson
Birth date: September 1700
Death date: 27 August 1748
Nationality: Scottish
Family relations
          father: Thomas Thomson
          mother: Beatrix Thomson
          brother: Alexander Thomson
          brother: Andrew Thomson
          brother: John Thomson
          sister: Mary Craig
Language: English
Education
          Abbey at Jedburgh
          Edinburgh University: 1715
Patron: Frances Seymour
Literary period: Augustan
Occupation: Tutor
Residences
          Jedburgh
          Lancaster Court, London to 1736
          Southdean
          Ednam, Roxburghshire: 1700
          Kew Foot Lane, London: 1736
Buried at: Richmond Parish Church
First RPO edition: 1997