The City of Dreadful Night de James Thomson

The City of Dreadful Night

James Thomson

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 apr 2023

James Thomson (1834 -1882) published under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis. He was a Scottish Victorian poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night (1874) which was an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. The City of Dreadful Night came about from his struggle with alcoholism and chronic depression and the Increasing isolation from friends and society in general. He even became hostile towards his best friend Bradaugh. Nineteen months before his death, The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems was published to favorable reviews, but it was to late to stop the downward spiral of Thomson's life.

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Express

Paperback (8)

44^.36 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

44^.36 lei 3-5 săpt.

Canongate Books – 2001

62^.13 lei 3-5 săpt.

+3^.93 lei 5-11 zile

CREATESPACE –

91^.43 lei 3-5 săpt.

–

114^.74 lei 3-5 săpt.

Book Jungle – 30 dec 2009

87^.36 lei 6-8 săpt.

LIGHTNING SOURCE INC – 16 mai 2018

95^.21 lei 17-23 zile

Blurb – 11 feb 2019

107^.77 lei 38-44 zile

Ind Press – 25 iul 2010

113^.86 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (1)

352^.58 lei 3-5 săpt.

Outlook Verlag – 18 oct 2022

352^.58 lei 3-5 săpt.

Notă biografică

Born in 1834 in Port Glasgow, Scotland, James Thomson was raised in the slums of East London, where his mother worked as a seamstress, supporting the family. Orphaned young, he was raised in a series of educational asylums and served time in the English Army as a schoolmaster. He started publishing essays and poems in radical journals during his time in the Army with the pseudonym "B.V." for "Bysshe Vanolis," after two of his most important literary influences, Shelley and Novalis. In 1862, he was court-martialed from the Army and returned to London to work as a clerk, hoping to support himself as a writer. Unfortunately, he never achieved the financial security he needed- his poverty, alcoholism, and increasingly erratic behavior plagued his ability to keep the social circles he needed to publish and find income. Despite favorable reviews of his work, including an 1880 edition of "The City of Dreadful Night" that went into a second printing, Thomson's health continued to decline, and his drinking bouts worsened as he increasingly needed friends' assistance to keep him housed. James Thomson died destitute and homeless in early June 1882.