James Thomson

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The City of Dreadful Night

  • most famous C19 atheist poem
  • "benumbs the sense" - Shelley? Keats?
  • XVI - sermon of atheism
  • the poem's power lies in length and the various modes he uses
  • rhythmically various but returning to that heartbeat of iambic pentameter
  • change but no comfort
  • a metapoetic statement in the proem: not for comfort but for protest
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