{\b Thomas Campbell}.

{\b Date of Birth}.: 1777

{\b Date of Death}.: 1844

{\b Works}.

Scottish poet and journalist. His first poetical work was The Pleasures of  
Hope (1799), followed by Gertrude of Wyoming (1809), Theodric and other poems 
(1824), and The Pilgrim of Glencoe, and Other Poems (1842).  He also made 
contributions to The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia and was editor of The New Monthly 
Magazine (1820-30) to which he contributed many poems including The Last Man. 
He is now chiefly remembered for his 'war-songs' of which 'The Battle of 
Hohenlinden' , 'The Battle of the Baltic' and 'Ye Mariners of  England' are 
his most famous.

{\b Featured Works}.

'The Soldier's Dream', 'The River of Life', 'Hohenlinden', 'Ye Mariners of 
England', 'To the Evening Star', 'Earl March Looked on His Dying Child', 
'Exile of Erin', 'Eternity of Hope', 'To the Rainbow', 'Field Flowers', 'Lord 
Ullin's Daughter', 'The Last Man', 'The Battle of the Baltic'.

{\b General Comment}.

Thomas Campbell was born the son of a Glasgow merchant and was educated at 
Glasgow University. In 1797 he went to study law at Edinburgh but soon began 
to take a more active interest in both the reading and writing of poetry. 
Although now he is largely forgotten, he was immensely popular in his day and 
his first composition The Pleasures of Hope ran through four editions in the 
first year of its publication. He travelled widely on the Continent during the 
years (1800-1) and visited Hohenlinden, Hamburg, which was to inspire him in 
the writing of the famous poem 'The Battle of Hohenlinden'.

He married in 1803 and settled in London after refusing the offer of  a chair 
at Wilna. 

Following another trip to Germany in 1818 he wrote Specimens of British Poets 
and in 1820 gave a series of lectures on poetry at the Surrey Institution. He 
was involved in the founding of the University of London (now University 
College London) in the late 1820's and later compiled The Annals of Great 
Britain from George II to the Peace of Amiens. He was buried in Westminster 
Abbey.