Poem sequence · 1880

The City of Dreadful Night

1870; 1874

by James Thomson (B.V.)

James Thomson's poem of a nocturnal city of despair, in twenty-one numbered sections, with an epigraph from Dante, one from Leopardi and a Proem.

Contents · 22 parts

• Epigraphs and Proem60 lines
• I84 lines
• II48 lines
• III28 lines
• IVabout 110 lines
• V28 lines
• VI63 lines
• VII21 lines
• VIII47 lines
• IX21 lines
• X67 lines
• XI28 lines
• XII57 lines
• XIII42 lines
• XIV90 lines
• XV21 lines
• XVI54 lines
• XVII28 lines
• XVIII78 lines
• XIX35 lines
• XX48 lines
• XXI84 lines

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