* 1949 – James Fenton, English poet

A cheese of 7, 000 lb ( 3, 175 kg ) was produced in Ingersoll, Ontario, in 1866 and exhibited in New York and Britain ; it was immortalised in the poem " Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing over 7, 000 Pounds " by James McIntyre, a Canadian poet.

* 1819 – James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist ( d. 1891 )

* 1923 – James Dickey, American poet and author ( d. 1997 )

* The Ossian cycle of ancient Celtic poetry supposedly rediscovered and published in 1760 by Scottish poet James Macpherson was actually written in the eighteenth century, possibly based on some fragments of earlier verses.

James Macpherson was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation, claiming to have found poetry written by Ossian, he published translations that acquired international popularity, being proclaimed as a Celtic equivalent of the Classical epics.

Additionally, the poet James Whitcomb Riley facetiously suggested that the fierce brawling that took place in Indiana involved enough ear biting that the expression " Whose ear?

He supported the ornithologist John James Audubon, the poet / writer Edgar Allan Poe, and the presidential campaign of Henry Clay.

" American biographer James Sloan notes that New York poet, publisher and translator, George Reavey, claimed to have written The Painted Bird for Kosiński.

* 1871 – James Weldon Johnson, American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist ( d. 1938 )

Directed by John Boorman, from a script that poet James Dickey had helped to adapt from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a canoe trip gone awry in a feral, backwoods America.

James Henry Leigh Hunt | Leigh Hunt, second-generation Romantic poet

* 1849 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet ( d. 1916 )

* 1784 – James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Romantic critic, essayist, and poet ( d. 1859 )

Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson from about 1760.

His poem, Palme, inspired James Merrill's celebrated 1974 poem Lost in Translation, and his cerebral lyricism also influenced the American poet, Edgar Bowers.

James Thomson ( poet ) | James Thomson, whose work The Seasons was the subject of Millar v Taylor.

Scott met the blind poet Thomas Blacklock who lent him books as well as introducing him to James Macpherson's Ossian cycle of poems.

* 1700 – James Thomson, Scottish poet ( d. 1748 )

Edward James " Ted " Hughes, OM ( 17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998 ) was an English poet and children's writer.

William Ashbless is a fictional poet, invented by fantasy writers James Blaylock and Tim Powers.

* January 19 – James Dickey, American poet and novelist ( b. 1923 )

* March 3 – James Merrill, American poet ( d. 1995 )

* October 7 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet ( b. 1849 )

In 1952, Scottish poet Derick Thomson concluded that Macpherson had collected Scottish Gaelic ballads, employing scribes to record those that were preserved orally and collating manuscripts, but had adapted them by altering the original characters and ideas, and had introduced a great deal of his own.

* August 27 – James Thomson, Scottish poet ( b. 1700 )

* September 11 – James Thomson, Scottish poet ( d. 1748 )

Some notable persons either born in or who resided in Columbia County include: Oliver Hardy ( comedian, born in Harlem ), Paul Hamilton Hayne ( poet and author ), Henry Louis Benning ( Confederate general for whom Fort Benning is named ), William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, George W. Crawford, William H. Crawford ( presidential candidate in 1824 ), Thomas Watson ( populist leader and Georgia senator born in Thomson when it was still in Columbia County ), George McDuffie ( South Carolina governor and senator in the early 19th century ), Jesse Mercer ( a long-time preacher in the county for whom Mercer University is named ).

* August 27-James Thomson, Scottish poet ( born 1700 )

One of his first official acts was to deprive the poet James Thomson of a small office conferred on him by Talbot.

Among his contemporaries Talbot enjoyed the reputation of a wit ; he was a patron of the poet James Thomson, who in The Seasons commemorated a son of his to whom he acted as tutor ; and Butler dedicated his famous Analogy to the lord chancellor.

* Derick Thomson, Scottish Gaelic poet, born elsewhere in Lewis, but educated in Stornoway

James Thomson ( poet ) | James Thomson, from the 1779 edition of Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.

Thom Gunn, born Thomson William Gunn ( 29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004 ), was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style.

" Thomson did not attempt again to make payments until, close to the end of his life, the dying poet desperately begged him for a further five pounds.

Once Burns had stated his wishes Thomson rarely argued back, but sometimes made alterations without consulting the poet and ignored the request of Burns to return unsuitable songs for Johnson to put into print.

* Robert Riccaltoun s: Riccaltoun, Robert ( DNB00 ) ( 1691 – 1769 ) Scottish Presbyterian divine and friend of the poet James Thomson ( 1700-1748 )

* James Thomson ( poet ) ( 1700-1748 ) Scottish poet and playwright besy known for his masterpiece The Seasons and the lyrics of Rule, Britannia!

* John Thomson ( minister ), minister in Sutherland, Scotland who was responsible for recording the works of the poet Rob Donn

* Derick Thomson MacThòmais ( poet )

* James Thomson ( poet ) ( 1700 – 1748 ), Scottish poet and playwright

* James Thomson ( weaver poet ) ( 1763 – 1832 ), Scottish poet