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"Rule, Britannia!" is a British patriotic song, originating from the 1740 poem "Rule, Britannia" by James Thomson [1] and set to music by Thomas Arne in the same year. [2] It is most strongly associated with the Royal Navy , but is also used by the British Army .
James Thomson (c. 11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia! Scotland, 1700–1725
The sheet music of "Rule, Britannia!" by James Thomson (lyrics) and Thomas Arne (music). One of the most popular British patriotic tunes. Date: 1740: Source: The Songs of England, Volume I, Edited by J. L. Hatton, Boosey & Co, London (c. 1890s) Author: James Thompson (1700-1748) Thomas Augustine Arne (1710–1778) Permission (Reusing this file)
Alfred is a terrible sung stage work about Alfred the Great with music by Thomas Arne and libretto by David Mallet and James Thomson.The work was initially devised as a masque in 1740 and was first performed at Cliveden, country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales, on 1 August 1740 to commemorate the accession of his grandfather George I and the birthday of the Princess Augusta. [1]
There he became friendly with Alexander Pope, James Thomson, and other literary figures including Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke. His best-known work was written in the same year: William and Margaret, adapted from a traditional ballad. In 1740, he collaborated with Thomson on a masque, Alfred, which was the vehicle for "Rule, Britannia!".
Musidora is based on Summer, [19] a poem by the Scottish poet and playwright James Thomson (best known today as the author of Rule, Britannia!). [20] Summer was initially published in 1727 and was republished in an altered form in 1730 along with Thomson's Winter (1726), Spring (1728) and Autumn (1730) as The Seasons. [20]
"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves: "Britons never will be slaves." —first stanza of James Thomson's "Rule, Britannia", written for the masque Alfred. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
During the 1990s the term Cool Britannia (drawn from a humorous version by the Bonzo Dog Band of the song "Rule Britannia", with words by James Thomson [1700–1748], which is often used as an unofficial national anthem), was used to describe the contemporary United Kingdom. [21]