Thomas Campbell (poet)
Thomas Campbell ( born July 27, 1777 Glasgow, † June 15, 1844 in Boulogne -sur -Mer ) was a Scottish poet. Lord Byron Campbell works estimated higher than that of Wordsworth or Coleridge.
Life and work
Campbell was the youngest of eleven children. It is named after the Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid, with his father, Alexander Campbell, a Landadliger, was a close friend. Thomas visited the oldest school in Scotland, the Church's High School in Glasgow, and subsequently studied at the local university.
He spent the holidays again and again in Argyllshire, where his family, the clan Campbell, originally came and where he began writing poetry. It was here also Love and madness. In 1795 he went as a tutor to Mull, an island of the Inner Hebrides.
1797 Campbell moved to Edinburgh to study law. There he published in 1799 The pleasures of hope, in which, as Meyers encyclopedia from 1885 wrote: " melodious language and nobleness won such acclaim that the first year four editions were necessary." It grabbed topical issues: the French Revolution, the partitions of Poland, slavery.
In 1800, Campbell traveled for some time in Germany, Klopstock visited in Hamburg and Heyne at Gottingen, where he expanded his philological knowledge. The Second Coalition War forced him to return home. During the long journey came The exile of Erin, " Hohenlinden " and Ye Mariners of England. On the occasion of the pre-emptive strike against Denmark, he hurried back to Edinburgh, where he wrote the patriotic poem "The Battle of the Baltic". His ballad Lochiel 's Warning comes from the phrase "Coming events cast their shadows before " ( "coming events cast Their shadows before" ).
In 1802 he moved to Sydenham in London and released a number of other literary works, including the " Edinburgh Encyclopedia". The culmination of his work in 1808 presented the finished Annals of Great Britain from the accession of George III. to the peace of Amiens is, where in 1809 the poetic narrative Gertrude of Wyoming followed. His later poems were subordinate nature ( That lady, after the American state of Wyoming is named. ).
After a second trip to Germany in 1818 he published his Specimens of the British poets, accompanied with a critical and biographical notes selection of English seals. In 1820 he founded the "The New Monthly Magazine ," which he directed until 1830. In 1825, he developed the idea and designed the plan to establish the University of London, as students were excluded for religious reasons or for lack of funds increasing from studying at Oxford or Cambridge.
The University of Glasgow from 1826 to 1829 elected him to their Lord Rector. A trip to Algiers in 1837 gave him rise to the Letters from the South, which was followed by the biographical works Life of Mrs. Siddons (1837 ), Life of Petrarch (1841 ), Frederick the Great, his court and times (1843 ).
It is narrated that he was married and his wife died in 1828. Of her two sons died as a baby, the other was insane. Campbell himself died on June 15, 1844 in Boulogne -sur -Mer and was buried in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey ( London).
Swell
- Campbell, Thomas, Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved September 10, 2006, from Encyclopædia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD.
- Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911.
- Meyers Lexicon of 1885.