“If any thing I can scribble be entertaining to you, may I be damned to transcribe dull books for the press all my life if I do not write abundantly.”
About James Thomson
23 November 1834–3 June 1882
In the pantheon of Victorian poetry, few figures cast as long and dark a shadow as James Thomson, who wrote under the mysterious initials "B.V." Born on November 23, 1834, in Port Glasgow, Scotland, Thomson would become one of the most compelling and tragic voices of his generation, a poet whose work plumbed the…