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The City of Dreadful Night

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wrote that "what saves Thomson is the perfection with which he expresses the negative and hopeless side of the sense of mystery."
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that it expresses. It has been argued that the city described in the poem is based on
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The poem, despite its insistently bleak tone, won the praise of
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A History of Nineteenth-Century Literature (1780–1895)
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Rudyard Kipling bibliography

Gustave Doré
long poem
Scottish
James "B.V." Thomson
National Reformer
pessimistic philosophy
London
George Meredith
Rudyard Kipling
George Saintsbury
""Poison Mixed With Gall": James Thomson's The City of Dreadful Night – A Personal View"
The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems
"Among the Authors: The Poet of Pessimism"
"The Importance of Being London: Looking for Signs of the Metropolis in James Thomson's City of Dreadful Night"
A History of Nineteenth-Century Literature (1780–1895)

The City of Dreadful Night

James Thomson (B.V.)
The City of Dreadful Night
Project Gutenberg
The City of Dreadful Night
LibriVox
Stub icon
poem
stub
expanding it
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