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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Thomas Campbell (1777–1844)

Campbell, Thomas. A celebrated Scottish poet; born at Glasgow, July 27, 1777; died at Boulogne, France, June 15, 1844. In 1799 was published his ‘Pleasures of Hope,’ which in a year reached a fourth edition. ‘Gertrude of Wyoming’ (1809); ‘The Exile of Erin’; ‘Hohenlinden’; ‘Lochiel’s Warning’; ‘Ye Mariners of England’; and ‘Battle of the Baltic,’ are among his best-known poems. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).