The Poems Of Thomas Campbell

Author : Thomas Campbell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330227749
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book The Poems of Thomas Campbell written by Thomas Campbell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poems of Thomas Campbell Thomas Campbell, the poet, was born in his father's house, High Street, Glasgow, on the 27th July, 1777. He was the eighth son, the eleventh and last child of Alexander and Margaret Campbell, both of the same clan and name, although not of the same kin. The poet's father had been educated for a commercial life, and after spending some years in Falmouth, Virginia, had established himself as a merchant in Glasgow, where he was very prosperous at the time of his marriage in 1756. In 1775, however, nearly all the fruits of a life-long industry perished in the commercial crisis which followed the outbreak of war between Great Britain and her American colonies; and old Campbell, being then sixty-five years of age, instead of tempting fortune again, preferred to husband the moderate means which he was able to save from the general wreck; so that, when the poet was born to him, he was living as a retired, and; in means, a broken-down merchant. This family reverse, and the spectacle of his father surviving it for six and twenty years, with dignity and cheerfulness, must have had a powerful effect upon the poets youthful mind, and doubtless contributed not a little to the development of that sympathy with misfortune, and that defiant Lope when things are at the worst, which are the chief moral characteristics of his poetry, and made him the true expression of an age whose calamities and aspirations were alike gigantic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.