Little is recorded of this Newcastle poet, who after publishing a volume of poems became editor of the Newcastle Journal (1739), and later the Newcastle General Magazine (1748-60) and The literary register: or, Weekly Miscellany (1769-72). John Nichols prints a 1775 letter from George Allan to Richard Gough: "The Legend of St. Cuthbert, which you mentioned to be in Isaac Thompson's possession, with Hunter's additions, I was favoured with about ten years ago, and transcribed the greatest part thereof" Literary Anecdotes (1812-15) 8:697.
TEXT RECORDS:
1731A Pastoral Ode.
1731An Epithalamium.
1731Colin in Despair.
1731Introduction to the Pastorals.
PUBLICATIONS:
A collection of poems occasionally writ on several subjects. 1731.
A description of the orrery: wherein the structure and several parts of that curious machine, are fully explain'd. 1750 ca.
A short account of a course of natural and experimental philosophy, comprehending mechanics, hydrostatics, and pneumatics, with the elements of optics and astronomy. 1757.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
education not known
poet
editor
journalist
The Newcastle Journal
Newcastle General Magazine
REFERENCE:
Not DNB; not NCBEL.
E. F. Herdman, "Early Newcastle Typography" Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle 10 (1923) 165-66; Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995).
BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Isaac Thompson:
AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)
| 1. | 1731 John Milton: Isaac Thompson, in "An Essay on Poetry" Thompson, Collection of Poems (1731) 149-50. |
| 2. | 1731 Alexander Pope: Isaac Thompson, in "An Essay on Poetry" Thompson, Collection of Poems (1731) 150-51. |
| 3. | 1731 Sir Richard Steele: Isaac Thompson, "On Sr. Richard Steele's Christian Hero" Thompson, Collection of Poems (1731) 143-45. |
