James Thomson

City of Dreadful Night

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Produktbeschreibung

A poem that anticipates the modern age's nightmare vision of the city as a place of loneliness, alienation and spiritual despair.

Produktdetails

• Canongate Classics S
• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 127mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 80g
• ISBN-13: 9780862414498
• ISBN-10: 0862414490
• Artikelnr.: 22352613

Autorenporträt

James Thomson (1834-82), who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet. Following the death of his father, Thomson was brought up in an orphanage in London, before spending a decade in the military. On his return to London, Thomson became a clerk and began submitting his creative work to numerous publications. The City of Dreadful Night is Thomson's most famous piece, a pessimistic long poem concerned with the universe's indifference towards humanity, and it sprang from the author's struggle with insomnia, alcoholism and chronic depression during his last years.