Thomas campbell biography and works

18th/19th-century Scottish poet

Thomas Campbell (27 July – 15 June ) was a Scottish poet. He was a founder and the first President of the Clarence Club and a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland; he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became University College London.

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In he wrote Pleasures of Hope, a traditional 18th-century didactic poem in heroic couplets. He also produced several patriotic war songs— "Ye Mariners of England", "The Soldier's Dream", "Hohenlinden" and, in , The Battle of the Baltic, but was no less at home in delicate lyrics such as "At Love's Beginning".

Early life

Born on High Street, Glasgow in , he was the youngest of the eleven children of Alexander Campbell (–), son of the 6th and last Laird of Kirnan, Argyll, descended from the MacIver-Campbells.

His mother, Margaret (born ), was the daughter of John Campbell of Craignish and Mary, daughter of Robert Simpson, "a celebrated Thomas Campbell (poet) - Wikipedia FAHI