BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Campbell was one of the bestselling poets of the long eighteenth century, who became immensely popular following the publication of The Pleasures of Hope (1799), a Whiggish poem of political optimism. 2/5 #BSECS #skystorians 🗃️ 120
BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 13/05/2025The critic Sarah Zimmerman praised Campbell’s varied career ‘as poet, lecturer, editor, biographer, and educator’ (2019: 94); as his wide-ranging interests included Polish liberation, extending university education, addressing popular readerships, & the effects of war and colonialism. 3/5 110
BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 13/05/2025He was at the centre of a large social network, writing and interacting with leading political, scientific, artistic, literary and cultural figures of the long eighteenth-century, including Henry Brougham, James Thomson, Richard Kerr Porter, Walter Scott, Maria Callcott, and Lord and Lady Byron. 4/5 110
