For authors with similar names, see Author:James Thomson.
Works
Poetry
- For ever, Fortune
- The Seasons (1726–1730)
- The Smoaker Smoak'd
- Ode to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton (1727)
- Britannia (1728)
- Liberty (1734–1736)
- Agamemnon (1738)
- The Castle of Indolence (1748)
Anthologized:
- In Poems and Extracts (1905) by William Wordsworth:
Drama
- The Tragedy of Sophonisba (1730) (external scan)
- Edward and Eleonora (1739)
- Alfred: A Masque (1740), co-authored with David Mallet, and which contains the song Rule, Britannia! (external scan)
- Tancred and Sigismunda: A Tragedy (1745) (external scan)
Translation
- "The Commentaries of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus" (1747) (transcription project)
Works about Thomson
- "Life of Thomson" by Robert Shiells in Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift (1753) edited by Theophilus Cibber (disputed)
- "Thomson, James (1700-1748)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "Thomson, James (1700-1748)," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)
- "Thomson, James (1700-1748)," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
Parodies of Thomson
On his works
- "Seasons, The," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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