Romantic

Thomas Thompson

1773–1816


Thomas Thompson is represented here by verse printed in John Bell's Rhymes of Northern Bards (Newcastle, 1812), 2 pieces and in The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-side Songster (Newcastle: W. & T. Fordyce, 1842), 2 pieces.

A writer of Tyneside songs in the local dialect; the spelling of the printed texts is kept as the books give it.

  1. The New Keel Row
  2. Canny Newcassel
  3. Jemmy Joneson's Whurry
  4. Keel Row (New)

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