The City of Dreadful Night. E-book. Formato EPUB - 9791220274814
Un ebook di Thomson James edito da E-BOOKARAMA, 2021
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James Thomson, who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian era poet famous primarily for the long poem "The City of Dreadful Night", first published in 1874, an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment.
He struggled with depression, insomnia and alcohol-abuse throughout his short life and his work frequently reflected the bleakness and despair of his life’s experiences.
Raymond Williams calls "The City of Dreadful Night": ‘a symbolic vision of the city as a condition of human life’. Williams asserts that, by the Victorian-era, the city had become a new form of human consciousness. The city of Thomson’s poem is clearly an imagined London. But it is not the dynamic hub of Empire of the popular imagination: for him it is a city of death in life. A place permeated by loss of belief, loss of purpose and loss of hope.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo: The City of Dreadful Night. E-book. Formato EPUB
- Autore: Thomson James
- Editore: E-BOOKARAMA
- Data di Pubblicazione: 08 Marzo '21
- Formato: EPUB
- Protezione: nessuna
- ISBN-13: 9791220274814