Romantic

Thomas Russell

1762–1788


Thomas Russell (1762–1788) was an English poet and sonneteer, educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He died young, of consumption, in 1788.

His Sonnets and Miscellaneous Poems were published after his death, in 1789, and the sonnets in particular were admired by later poets of the Romantic generation.

  1. To Oxford
  2. To Valclusa
  3. Could then the Babes from yon unshelter'd cot
  4. Suppos'd to be written at Lemnos
  5. The Maniac

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