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The Castle of Indolence.
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In the following excerpt, Gerrard reads The Castle of Indolence as a political poem which politely but firmly chastises the ineffectualness of political life in England during Robert Walpole's ...
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Sambrook is one of the world's leading authorities on Thomson and the author of a major biography of the poet. In the following excerpt from that work, he offers a closely biographical and sour...
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In the excerpt below, Golden examines patterns of "self-vision" in Thomson's poetry, notably The Castle of Indolence and The Seasons.
While James Thomson shares with Pope such con...
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Greene is an American educator and essayist. In the following excerpt, he discusses the moral, psychiatric, and theological aspects of The Castle of Indolence, arguing that the poem has been overshado...
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In the following study, originally published in 1898, of The Castle of Indolence, Bayne places the poem between the tradition of Edmund Spenser, whose Faery Queen Thomson deliberately imitated, and po...
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Critical Essay by Christine Gerrard
