'... although the new Life demonstrates Sambrook's unparalleled knowledge of the texts, it is his emphasis on Thomson as a poet of politics, rather thatn nature, that distinguishes it from earlier studies. What emerges with great clarity is the intricate nature of the relationship between poet and patron, ... a masterpiece of unspeculative, unsensationalized research.'
Fiona Stafford. Somerville College, Oxford. review of English Studies Vol XLV May '94