In this haunting poem from the latter part of the nineteenth
century, Scots-born writer James Thomson anticipated the modern
age's nightmare vision of the city as a place of loneliness,
alienation and spiritual despair. In contrast to the late Victorian
confidence all around him, Thomson dared to face the possibility
that the universe was utterly indifferent to human affairs. The
strange and dark images in The City of Dreadful Night have become a
landmark of modern literature, for the tomb-like streets and empty
squares in this memorable poem preceded T.S Eliot's The Waste Land,
and the darker visions of expressionism and surrealism by over
forty-five years. Published in instalments in 1874 and then in book
form in 1880, The City of Dreadful Night has long been unavailable
as a complete text. This exciting new edition is introduced and
annotated by Edwin Morgan, long an admirer of Thomson's work, and a
leading modern poet in his own right.
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