Which poet's middle name is Bysshe?
James Thomson (poet, born 1834) biography, "The Life of James Thomson (B.V.)". Thomson's pseudonym, "Bysshe Vanolis", derives from the names of the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Novalis. He is often distinguished from the earlier Scottish poet James Thomson by the letters "B.V." after the name. James Thomson (poet, born 1834) James Thomson (23 November 1834 – 3 June 1882), who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem "The City of Dreadful Night" (1874), an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. Thomson was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland, and, at the
Edward Bysshe (writer) the same year there appeared a translation by Bysshe of Xenophon's "Memorabilia", which was dedicated to John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham, and was reissued in 1758. Bysshe was not involved by name in the 1715 edition of further works by Bulstrode, and that has been taken as an indication that he had died by that date. Edward Bysshe (writer) Edward Bysshe (fl. 1712) was an English writer, remembered for his popular guide "The Art of Poetry" from 1702. While not respectable as a manual on verse-writing, it was used by leading authors. Bysshe's background is unclear. The "Oxford Dictionary