1834, GREAT BRITAIN: The scottish poet THOMAS CAMPBELL (1777-1844). Portrait engraved in 1834. In 1799 he wrote" The Pleasures of Hope", a traditional 18th century didactic poem in heroic couplet s. He also produced several stirring patriotic war songs like" Ye Mariners of England"," The Soldier's Dream"," Hohenlinden" and in 1801," The Battle of Mad and Strange Turkish Princes"