Under the Sphinx
Alasdair Gray, 11 March 1993
Places of the Mind: The Life and Work of James Thomson (‘B.V.’)
by Tom Leonard.
Cape, 407 pp., £25, February 1993,9780224031189 Show More
by Tom Leonard.
Cape, 407 pp., £25, February 1993,
“... If Pope’s Dunciad, Johnson’s ‘London’, Blake’s Songs of Experience and Shelley’s ‘Peter Bell’ are set before it. Thomson takes his place in a tradition linking the Augustans and Romantics with the Moderns: a metropolitan tradition reflecting the state of Britain. This was not noticed because Tennyson, Browning and Arnold provided a greater ... ”