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Thomas Campbell was born in Glasgow, and educated at the university there. After a series of posts as a tutor to families in the Scottish Highlands, he attracted attention with his poem The Pleasures of Hope (1799). He subsequently settled in London, and became a prominent member of the London literary scene. His Gertrude of Wyoming appeared in 1809, and he edited a seven-volume anthology, Specimens of the British Poets, published in 1819. In 1820 he became editor of the New Monthly Magazine, and was active in the movement to found a university in London. He was regarded as an eminent figure in his own day, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Watson, J.R. (1992). Campbell, Thomas (1777–1844). In: Raimond, J., Watson, J.R. (eds) A Handbook to English Romanticism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22288-9_14
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