Campbell, Thomas

a distinguished British poet, B. in Glasgow, 1777. His Pleasures of Hope, published at the early age of twenty-one, is replete with romantic beauty and generous enthusiasm; his Gertrude of Wyoming abounds in the most beautiful home-scenes, and is marked by the most perfect delineation of character and pa ion. His O'Connor's Child is full of antique grace and pa ionate energy, while his noble lyrics or war-songs form the richest offering ever made by poetry at the shrine of patriotism. His prose works are also numerous, and his Specimens of the British Poets are models of chaste, yet animated criticism. He D. at Boulogne, 1844.