Castle of Indolence

Besides the _Seasons_, Thomson wrote some tragedies, which were failures, also what some critics consider his best work, _The Castle of Indolence_, published in 1748.

The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

Richmond, which, if otherwise reprehensible, at least gave him the power to write his most beautiful poem, _The Castle of Indolence_.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Thomson, _The Castle of Indolence_ (Stanzas about Samuel Patterson, Dr. Armstrong, and the author); Barry Cornwall, _The Poet and the Fisher_, and _Epistle to Charles Lamb on His Emancipation from the Clerkship_;

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

_The Castle of Indolence_, the latter _The Seasons_.

English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906

In _The Castle of Indolence_, published just before his death in 1748, he imitates Spenser.

Romance Two Lectures Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

As they had no conception of property in land, and the non-utilisable over-production could not, therefore, with them -- as would unquestionably have happened elsewhere -- beget misery among the masses, here for years together the fable of the Castle of Indolence became a reality.

Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

It has been supposed by some, that the Castle of Indolence is

Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt 1804

James Thomson [Footnote: See the _Castle of Indolence, _ Canto II, stanzas XXI-III.

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

The full rudeness is only apparent when we remember that Brentford was in that day a byword for dreariness and dirt ” Thomson in the Castle of Indolence calls it

Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895