THOMAS CAMPBELL


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Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell
  • Born: July 27, 1777
  • Died: June 15, 1844
  • Nationality: Scottish
  • Profession: Poet

Thomas Campbell 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. In 1799 he wrote "The 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 1801, "The Battle of the Baltic".