Author:James Thomson (B.V.)

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James Thomson (1834–1882)

published under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish poet famous primarily for the long poem 'The City of Dreadful Night' (1874) — Excerpted from James Thomson (B.V.) on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

James Thomson

Works

Anthologised poems

• The City of Dreadful Night
• A Voice from the Nile
• Shelley
• William Blake
• Despotism tempered by Dynamite
• A Proem
• On a Broken Pipe
• In the Train
• Sunday up the River
• Gifts
• The Vine

Essays

• The Poems of William Blake
• Shelley: an essay

Collected works

• Essays and phantasies, 1881 (page scan index)
  • A Word for Xantippe
  • On the worth of metaphysical systems
  • Sayings of Sigvat
  • A Note on Forster's Life of Swift
• A Voice from the Nile, and Other Poems., Edited by Bertram Dobell (page scan index)
• Shelley, a poem, with other writings relating to Shelley, to which is added an essay on the poems of William Blake (1884)
  • Correspondence between James Thomson and W. M. Rossetti
• Satires and profanities edited by by G. W. Foote (1884) (page scan index)
  • A Commission of Inquiry on Royalty
  • Spiritism in the Police Court
  • The Swinburne Controversy
• Biographical and critical studies by James Thomson ("B.V.") edited by by Dobell (1896) (page scan index)
• The poetical works of James Thomson, Volume 1 edited by Dobell (1895) (page scan index)
• The poetical works of James Thomson, Volume 2 edited by Dobell (1895) (page scan index)

Works about Thomson

His works

• James Thomson ("B.V."), a sonnet by Bertram Dobell in Rosemary and Pansies, 1904

Biographical

• “Thomson, James (1834-1882)” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Thomson, James (1834-1882),” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• “Thomson, James (poet, 1834-1882)” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.