Talk:James Thomson (B.V.)

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: The City of Dreadful Night is "an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment?" -- boilerplate and untrue imho. Thomson's epic poem doesn't even touch "dehumanization" or the modern city's "uncare" for people. The poem is about melancholy in its purest most existential sense -- Durer's Melancholia -- and in a brilliant imaginative stroke Thomson *builds* a city to illustrate the feeling. I mean it's such a basic point that one fears for the rest of the article, which I stopped reading but maybe someone else can check. -- Egomet Bonmot (edit)

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A Misleading Reading of "City"

The City of Dreadful Night is many things but it's not "an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment." -- That's boilerplate lingo and untrue, as even the most cursory reading will show. Thomson's epic poem has nothing to say about "dehumanization" or the modern city's "uncare" for people. The poem is about melancholy in its purest most existential sense -- Durer's Melancholia -- and in a brilliant imaginative stroke Thomson *builds* his city image by image to illustrate the feeling. I mean it's such a basic point that one fears for the rest of the article, which I stopped reading but which maybe someone else can go over. -- Egomet Bonmot