The City of Dreadful Night
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Two epigraphs, from Dante and from the Italian poet Leopardi, introduce this long poem by James Thomson. A proem says whom it is written for: not the hopeful, but the weary and the desolate, who may find a fellow sufferer in it. Numbered sections then lay out the city itself, where the sun never rises, with a river curving round its west and south, a broad lagoon, waste marshes, black moorland and many bridges. The poem was first printed in 1874.
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Book facts
- Author
- James Thomson
- Reading time
- About 40 minutes
- Pages
- 57
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classical Poetry
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online