Poets
- James Thomson (poet) (1700–1748), Scottish poet and playwright, author of The Seasons and Rule, Britannia!"
- James Thomson (weaver poet) (1763–1832), Scottish poet
- James Thomson (B.V.) (1834–1882), Scottish poet, author of The City of Dreadful Night
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“Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.”
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