RPO -- Selected Poetry of Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)

Selected Poetry of Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2009, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

Notes on Life and Works

Carnall, Geoffrey. “Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Biographical information

Given name: Thomas
Family name: Campbell
Birth date: 27 July 1777
Death date: 15 June 1844
Nationality: Scottish
Family relations
father: Alexander Campbell
mother: Margaret Campbell
wife: Matilda Campbell (from 10 October 1803)
son: Alison Campbell
son: Thomas Telford Campbell
grandfather: Archibald Campbell
Languages
English
Greek
Hebrew
Education
Glasgow grammar school: 1785
Glasgow University: October 1791 to 1796
Honour: Lord rector, Glasgow University: 1826
Literary period: Romantic
Occupations
Editor
Tutor: 1795 to 1797
Clerk: 1797
Residences
Edinburgh
High Street, Glasgow: 27 July 1777
Sydenham: 1804
London: 1820 to 1843
Boulogne: 1843 to 1844
Cause of death: liver disease
Buried at: Westminster Abbey
First RPO edition: 1996