
City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems - Free Audiobook
Author(s): James Thomson,
1 / 19Front matter. Proem. The City of Dreadful Night Parts 1-10
- 1. Front matter. Proem. The City of Dreadful Night Parts 1-10
- 2. The City of Dreadful Night Parts 11-21
- 3. To our ladies of death
- 4. Insomnia
- 5. He Heard Her Sing
- 6. In the Room
- 7. A Voice from the Nile
- 8. The Poet and his Muse
- 9. Mater Tenebrarum
- 10. L'Ancien Régime
- 11. The Sleeper
- 12. On a Broken Pipe
- 13. Day
- 14. Night
- 15. William Blake
- 16. E.B.B.
- 17. The Fire That Filled My Heart of Old
- 18. Song
- 19. A Requiem
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While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 1903 edition, varying as it does in selection from the edition of the same name published during his lifetime, provides a representative look at what has come to be known as his best works. The title poem is a horror-laced journey through depths that are surface level supernatural and at their heart an exploration of depression and atheist existential crisis. Subsequent works turn personal struggles (such as chronic insomnia) into pure art and praise poets that have gone before. - Summary by MoonLylith
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