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Prose and poetry selections
The story of a famous old Jewish firm and other pieces in prose and
rime. 1883 (priv ptd).
Shelley: a poem; with other writings relating to Shelley, by the late
James Thomson (B.V.); to which is added an essay on the poetry of
William Blake by the same author. 1884 (priv ptd). Preface by B.
Dobell.
Selections from original contributions of Thomson to Cope’s
Tobacco Plant. Introd by W. Lewin, Liverpool 1889. Excerpts from
journalistic essays and criticism; with cartoon showing contemporary
figures as illustration to mock heroic ‘Pilgrimage to Saint
Nicotine’ poem excerpt.
Poems, essays and fragments. Ed with preface by J. M. Robinson
1892. Frontispiece portrait photograph 1860.
The speedy extinction of evil and misery: selected prose of James
Thomson (‘B.V.’). Ed W. D. Schaeffer, Berkeley CA and Los Angeles
1967.
§1
Poems
The pilgrimage to Saint Nicotine. Liverpool 1878.
The city of dreadful night and other poems. 1880.
reviews: Athenaeum 1 May 1880; George Saintsbury, Acad 12
June 1880; Westminster Rev July 1880; George Simcox,
Fortnightly Rev 1 July 1880; Philip Bourke Marston, Modern
Thought May 1881.
The title poem first appeared in Nat Reformer in 22 Mar, 12 and 26 Apr, and
27 May 1874, and was reviewed in Acad 6 June 1874 and Spectator 20 June
1874.
Vane’s story, Weddah and Om-el-Bonain and other poems. 1881 [for
1880].
reviews: Westminster Rev Jan 1881; Acad 5 Feb 1881.
Address at the opening of the new hall of the Leicester Secular
Society, Sunday 6th March 1881, delivered by Mrs Theodore
Wright. [1881.]
A voice from the Nile and other poems. 1884. With memoir by B.
Dobell. Bound in are quotes from 2 reviews of Essays and phantasies,
Westminster Rev Apr 1884.
The city of dreadful night and other poems. 1888 (2nd edn).
The city of dreadful night. Portland ME 1892. Introd by E. Cavazza.
Poetical works. Ed with memoir by B. Dobell 2 vols 1895.
The city of dreadful night and other poems. ‘Cheap edition’. Introd
by B. D. [Bertram Dobell] 1899.
The city of dreadful night and other poems. Portland ME 1909.
The city of dreadful night and other poems. Introd by B. D. [Bertram
Dobell] 1910.
The city of dreadful night and other poems. Introd by B. Dobell
1919.
The city of dreadful night and other poems. 1922.
The city of dreadful night. Yellow Springs OH 1926 (edn of 500).
Poems of James Thomson (‘B.V.’). Ed G. H. Gerould, New York 1927.
The city of dreadful night and other poems. Introd by E. Blunden
1932.
The city of dreadful night and other poems. Preface by H. S. Salt,
1932.
Poems and some letters of James Thomson, edited, with a biographical
and critical introduction and textual notes, by Anne Ridler.
1963. Gives mss dates of composition and cites variants in notes.
Reissued as Poems and some letters of James Thomson, edited,
with a biographical and critical introduction and textual notes,
by Anne Ridler, Carbondale 1963 (Centaur edn).
The city of dreadful night. Introd by E. Morgan, Edinburgh 1994.
Prose
A commission of inquiry on royalty etc. 1876 (with A bible lesson on
monarchy). Anti-royalist satire.
The story of a famous old Jewish firm. 1876. Secularist satire.
James Thomson, ‘B.V.’
The devil in the Church of England and The one thing. 1876.
Secularist satire.
The story of a famous old Jewish firm etc. In Leek Bijou Freethought
Reprints no 6 1881.
Essays and phantasies. 1881. Literary and cultural criticism and
fiction. (Bound in are extended quotes from reviews of The city of
dreadful night and Vane’s story.)
reviews: Acad 21 May 1881; Spectator 22 Oct 1881.
Satires and profanities. Ed G. W. Foote 1884. (Frontispiece portrait
photo 1881.) Secularist satire. 1890 (New edn).
Biographical and critical studies. Ed B. Dobell 1896. Literary criticism.
A lady of sorrow. Portland ME 1901. Fiction. In Essays and phantasies
and Schaefer 1967, above.
A lady of sorrow. Portland ME 1913 (2nd edn).
Thomson on George Meredith. 1909 (50 copies priv ptd).
Walt Whitman: the man and the poet. Ed and introd by B. Dobell
1910; facs 1970, New York 1971.
Contributions to periodicals
Thomson contributed prose and poetry regularly to periodicals 1858–82,
notably to Tait’s Edinburgh Mag 1858–9, Nat Reformer 1860–75,
Secularist 1876–77, and Cope’s Tobacco Plant 1875–80. Listed in Schaefer,
Bibliographies, above. Add to prose contributions:The United Kingdom
anti-papal league, Nat Reformer 2 May 1875. Besides ‘B.V.’ other pseudonymns
used were ‘Crepusculus’ (in Tait’s), ‘Bysshe Vanolis’, ‘X.’, ‘J.S.T.’, ‘T. J’,
‘J.T.’, and ‘Sigvat’.
Translations by Thomson
Essays, dialogues and thoughts of Giacomo Leopardi. With memoir
of Leopardi. Introd by and ed B. Dobell. [1905.] Leonard 1993, see
§2 below, cites significant differences between Dobell’s edited versions
and two trns pbd in Thomson’s lifetime.
Novalis, F. Hymns to night, in Novalis and the poets of pessimism,
ed S. Reynolds, Norwich 1995. Also in P. N. Rev 20 no 6 1994 with
ms note by T. Leonard.
Pbd trns from the Ger of Goethe and Heine; the Fr of Baudelaire, Béranger,
Bousquet, Courier, Gautier and Renan; and the Ital of Colletta and Leopardi,
are listed in Schaefer (see Bibliographies, above). Heine trns are in The city of
dreadful night 1880, Vane’s story 1881 [ for 1880], Satires and profanities
1884, Poems, essays and fragments 1892, and Poetical works 1895.
Goethe is in 1881 and 1895; Béranger in 1895.
Translations of Thomson
Esperanto. La urba de terura rokto, Auld, W. Aabyhaj Denmark 1977.
German. Nachstadt: und andere lichtscheue schriften. Horstmann,
Univ of Zurich 1992.
§2
Marston, P. B. In English poets, ed T. H. Ward, vol 4 1880.
Obits: (P. B. Marston) Athenaeum June 1882; Secular Rev 17 June
1882.
Flaws, G. G. James Thomson, a study. In Secular Rev 24 June, 1 July
1882.
Foote, G. W. James Thomson the man. Progress Apr 1884.
Foote, G. W. James Thomson the poet. Progress June 1884.
Mccall, W. A Nirvana trilogy. 1886.
Salt, H. S. The life of Thomson. 1889, 1898, 1914 (rev edn). The rev
edn reduces from 335 to 169 pp., 144 pp. of Salt’s literary criticism
reduced to 23 pp. Salt’s notes for the 1st edn, containing letters
from and notes of interviews with people who knew Thomson,
and Salt’s transcription of a 23-verse occasional poem no longer
extant, have been acquired from the Rationalist Press Assoc by
the Bodleian.
Noel, R. In Poets and poetry of the century, ed A. H. Miles, vol 5
[1892].
Dobell, B. The laureate of pessimism. 1910; facs reprint Port
Washington NY 1970.
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