The City of Dreadful Night
Long poem by James "B.V." Thomson / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The City of Dreadful Night is a long poem by the Scottish poet James "B.V." Thomson, written between 1870 and 1873, and published in the National Reformer in 1874,[1] then, in 1880, in a book entitled The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems.[2] The poem is noted for the pessimistic philosophy that it expresses.[3] It has been argued that the city described in the poem is based on London.[4]