Thomas Day Research Articles

Joel Barlow and William Hayley: A Correspondence

A S A YOUNG MAN Joel Barlow seems to have been persistently active in soliciting the best possible professional advice on revisions and (not quite incidentally) on the promotion of the epic-aspiring poem which he first wrote as The Vision of Columbus of I787, and then twenty years later expanded to The Columbiad. Before the first version was published, he sent copies of it to Richard Price, Thomas Day (of Sanford and Merton fame), and William Hayley, all reputable and, on the whole, liberal men of letters in England. Dr. Price sent him kindly counsel against publication at that time in London,' and Thomas Day was explicit in disapproval of the work even before he received his copy,2 but William Hayley, if he received the manuscript sent him in I786, seems not to have commented on the poem until six years later, after he had been introduced to the American by an enthusiastic mutual friend from Paris. Even then, Hayley, perhaps in politeness, had little definite or particularly significant to say. But the correspondence which passed between the two men in I79I and 1792 does help illuminate a period in Barlow's life, just before his rise to prominence as a radical pamphleteer and politician, about which too little has heretofore been known, and highlights briefly one of the infrequent literary interludes of the American's busy European career.

Thomas Day on American Poetry: 1786

Thomas Day on American Poetry: 1786

Thomas Day, author of 'Sandford and Merton'

Thomas Day, author of 'Sandford and Merton'

Thomas day, author of ‘sandford and merton’

Thomas day, author of ‘sandford and merton’

St. Thomas's day custom

St. Thomas's day custom Get access J. T. F. J. T. F. 1Winterton, Lines Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s12-VIII, Issue 147, 5 February 1921, Page 112, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s12-VIII.147.112a Published: 05 February 1921

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Rimes on St. Thomas's Day

Rimes on St. Thomas's Day

Rimes on St. Thomas's Day

Rimes on St. Thomas's Day Get access Edward Nicholson Edward Nicholson 1Nice Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s12-III, Issue 62, 3 March 1917, Page 173, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s12-III.62.173a Published: 03 March 1917

Rime on st. Thomas's day

Rime on st. Thomas's day

Begging on St. Thomas's Day

Begging on St. Thomas's Day

St. Thomas's Day

St. Thomas's Day Get access Peregrinus Peregrinus Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s11-X, Issue 260, 19 December 1914, Page 486, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s11-X.260.486 Published: 19 December 1914

<italic>Life in the Homeric Age</italic>. By <sc>Thomas Day Seymour</sc>, Hillhouse Professor of the Greek Language and Literature in Yale University. (New York and London: The Macmillan Company. 1907. Pp. xvi, 704.)

Journal Article Life in the Homeric Age. By Thomas Day Seymour, Hillhouse Professor of the Greek Language and Literature in Yale University. (New York and London: The Macmillan Company. 1907. Pp. xvi, 704.) Get access Life in the Homeric Age. By Seymour Thomas Day, Hillhouse Professor of the Greek Language and Literature in Yale University. (New York and London: The Macmillan Company. 1907. Pp. xvi, 704.) J. Irving Manatt J. Irving Manatt Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 13, Issue 3, April 1908, Pages 558–561, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/13.3.558 Published: 01 April 1908

St. Thomas's Day Custom

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