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Excerpt from Poems, Essays and Fragments
The works of James Thomson the Second, who still needs to be distinguished from his little-read namesake by his pen-name initials of B. V have thus far had a success of esteem rather than a success of popularity. Popular, indeed, they are not likely ever to be: neither his pessi mism nor his criticism ministers enough to the normal judgment to win him a large audience. But some addition there must be, year by year, to the audience for his most remarkable work; and among these there must be some to whom it will be a matter of course that all the literary work of a man of literary genius is interesting. For such readers the present collection has been compiled. It consists almost entirely of verse and prose contributed by Thomson to the National Reformer before 1875, or communicated by his literary executor to its columns during the past year or two. The exceptions are the Sergeants' mess-song, which has been communicated by Mr. Bertram Dobell, three other poems accounted.
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