The City of Dreadful Night

Name: The City of Dreadful Night
Author: James Thomson

by James Thomson

EN·~59 minutes

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Language

Duration

~59 minutes (57K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Michael C. Browning, and David Widger

Release date

1998-03-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

English poetry

About the author

James Thomson

1834–1882

Best known for the dark, powerful poem The City of Dreadful Night, this Scottish-born writer built a small but lasting reputation for fearless, skeptical verse. Writing under the signature “B.V.,” he turned personal hardship into poetry that still feels startlingly modern.

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