{"product_id":"city-of-dreadful-night-9780862414498","title":"City Of Dreadful Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this haunting poem from the latter part of the nineteenth century,  Scots-born writer James Thomson anticipated the modern age's nightmare  vision of the city as a place of loneliness, alienation and spiritual  despair. In contrast to the late Victorian confidence all around him,  Thomson dared to face the possibility that the universe was utterly  indifferent to human affairs. The strange and dark images in \u003ci\u003eThe City of Dreadful Night\u003c\/i\u003e  have become a landmark of modern literature, for the tomb-like streets  and empty squares in this memorable poem preceded T.S Eliot's \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e, and the darker visions of expressionism and surrealism by over forty-five years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in instalments in 1874 and then in book form in 1880, \u003ci\u003eThe City of Dreadful Night\u003c\/i\u003e  has long been unavailable as a complete text. This exciting new edition  is introduced and annotated by Edwin Morgan, long an admirer of  Thomson's work, and a leading modern poet in his own right.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James B. V. Thomson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48281363677435,"sku":"9780862414498","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780862414498_94517f97-e7d1-4dfa-854f-ada60f4763b5.jpg?v=1772483242","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/city-of-dreadful-night-9780862414498","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}