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	Chapter The City of Dreadful Night of The City of Dreadful Night by Rudyard Kipling
		Chapter The City of Dreadful Night of The City of Dreadful Night by Rudyard Kipling
		Straight as a bar of polished steel ran the road to the City of Dreadful Night; and on either side of the road lay corpses disposed on beds in fantastic attitudes—one hundred and seventy bodies of men.
		The scene—a main approach to Lahore city, and the night a warm one in August.’ This was all that there was to be seen; but by no means all that one could see.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/5/31/891/17258/1.html (927 words)

	§13. "The City of Dreadful Night". IV. Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, James Thomson. Vol. 13. The Victorian ...
		The City of Dreadful Night, he wrote to George Eliot, “was the outcome of much sleepless hypochondria.” It is not the utterance of a sane mind; but, whatever one may think about the sanity of the poem, nobody can fail to recognise, and feel, its sincerity.
		Nor is it fair to judge the range and variety of his poetical powers by The City of Dreadful Night alone.
		When all is told, however, The City of Dreadful Night, with its “inspissated gloom,” inevitably remains his most haunting and powerful production—a poetical monument well nigh unique in its sombre and awe-inspiring splendour.
	www.bartleby.com /223/0413.html (665 words)

	Amazon.com: The City of Dreadful Night (Canongate Classics, No 53): Books: James Thomson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		James Thomson’s epic poem The City Of Dreadful Night first appeared in 1874 and acheived in its day some fame and was read by many, but in the decades that followed the poem and the poet sank into obscurity, becoming known only to a few.
		His City of Dreadful Night, a true city of despair, held up a dark mirror to the urban England of his day, filled with faithless churches, empty and ultimately unrewarding activity, and the despair of grinding poverty.
		I read Thomson's "The City of Dreadful Night" and he became an instant favorite for me as far as poets are concerned.
	www.amazon.com /City-Dreadful-Night-Canongate-Classics/dp/0862414490 (1766 words)

	§12. James Thomson. IV. Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, James Thomson. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. ...
		The City of Dreadful Night, from which these lines are taken, is far from being all that is of account in the poetry of Thomson; he could strike other, and more cheerful, chords.
		But this poem is so distinctively individual and sincere an utterance springing from the depths of the poet’s own feelings and experience, and is so powerful and original a thing in itself, as to make it the one supreme achievement in verse by which Thomson is, and probably will be, remembered.
		He was for some length of time an inmate of Bradlaugh’s household, and a constant contributor of prose and verse to The National Reformer, in the columns of which The City of Dreadful Night made its first appearance in 1874.
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	Holko- SAMLA 2004
		She reinforces this structure with passages from The City of Dreadful Night, Thomson's "major" poem and minor claim to fame with its 1874 serialization in Charles Bradlaugh's socialist periodical Nationalist Reformer.
		The City of Dreadful Night, his masterpiece, as it is a poem quite unique in our literature, stands forth as the very sign and symbol of that attitude of mind which we call Weltschmerz, Pessimism, what you will; i.e.
		And the dread that fills all thought and dominates the dark city is time's indomitable rule, the constant awareness each inhabitant endures of this unending condition.
	www.case.edu /affil/sce/Texts_2004/holko.htm (2936 words)

	City of Dreadful Night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The City of Dreadful Night is a long poem by the Scottish poet James "B.V." Thomson, published in 1880 in a book entitled The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems.
		The City of Dreadful Night that gave its title to this poem, however, was made in the image of London.
		It is, however, a London transformed by the eye of a despairing atheist, the poet's voice has lost his faith and found nothing but emptiness to replace it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/City_of_Dreadful_Night (400 words)

	God with an Elephant Head: Pilgrimage to India
		Is it not, as Kipling said of Calcutta, “The City of Dreadful Night”; or as Kissinger said of Bangladesh, “a basketcase?” A basketcase was one who had lost all four limbs as happened to some of the casualties of Napoleon’s campaigns.
		I had sat through long nights in the mental ward of a midland hospital, an orderly who listened to the desperate, intense raving of farmers cut from the herd by some rogue chemical.
		In the middle of the night the TV was full of static; the talk crazy because the farmer had no idea of what place he was in.
	oak.ucc.nau.edu /jgr6/india.html (5051 words)

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		I The City is of Night; perchance of Death But certainly of Night; for never there Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath After the dewy dawning's cold grey air: The moon and stars may shine with scorn or pity 5 The sun has never visited that city, For it dissolveth in the daylight fair.
		A river girds the city west and south, The main north channel of a broad lagoon, Regurging with the salt tides from the mouth; Waste marshes shine and glister to the moon 25 For leagues, then moorland fl, then stony ridges; Great piers and causeways, many noble bridges, Connect the town and islet suburbs strewn.
		O length of the intolerable hours, O nights that are as aeons of slow pain, 30 O Time, too ample for our vital powers, O Life, whose woeful vanities remain Immutable for all of all our legions Through all the centuries and in all the regions, Not of your speed and variance WE complain.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext98/ctdnt10.txt (7505 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for dreadful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He is remembered for his darkly pessimistic poem The City of Dreadful Night.
		He was raised in an orphan asylum and became (1851) an army teacher at Ballincollig, Ireland.
		WA: Alleged police violence in BHP dispute dreadful: Beazley
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	New York Press
		An LAPD helicopter is droning in very tight circles over the golden-tipped dome of the ashram or yoga center or whatever that swami-looking thing across Sunset is. Circling and circling with its blunt nose down and its stinger up, looking for some perp of some sort.
		He lives in a huge 1921 white Tudor that was a steal when he bought it several years ago, before Madonna bought one nearby and gave the aging (by L.A. standards) neighborhood a new coat of hip.
		You party all night, hang over the barrel all morning, and by lunchtime, as the sobriety wagon passes you by on the way to another guy’s table down the beach, you salute it with the first couple of cervezas of the afternoon.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=3473 (2185 words)

	SPEA V450 8455 Urban Environmental History
		American Urban Environments: The city is a dominant fact of American life, despite the negative pronouncements of a host of intellectuals.
		This course will examine the turbulent growth of American cities, their environmental problems and the proposed, often ineffectual, solutions to deal with them.
		The course will open with lectures on the nature and history of American cities and follow with an examination of environmental problems employing a thematic approach: the city of dreadful night, the city of urgent reform, the pastoral city, the city beautiful, the garden city, the suburb city and the sustainable city of tomorrow.
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blfal99/spea/spea_v450_8455.html (122 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There can be no doubt that Guenter Grass, who last visited the city two decades ago, and is due back this Sunday, did not share this philosophy.
		views on the city, which, he has admitted in the past, had changed him radically, and had served to open his eyes to the sufferings and miseries of the world, were not welcomed by Calcutta?s intelligentsia.
		This Calcutta is far from the shopping malls, flyovers and food courts which, we hear, have made the city a more livable place.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050121/asp/calcutta/story_4277912.asp (450 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Voice of the City by O. Henry
		It is, as you might say, a consensus of translation, concentrating in a crystallized, general idea which reveals itself in what may be termed the Voice of the City.
		It is the function of you and your brother cops to preserve the acoustics of the city.
		She comes to that corner at nine every night for a--comes to say 'hello!' I generally manage to be there.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/ebook19138.htm (1608 words)

	City of Dreadful Night
		As the shadows of the night grow longer, and the City of the Dead begins stir, this atmospheric tour sets off Into the streets of haunted London to visit the places where ghosts have been seen.
		No sooner have you had time to mull over these spine-tingling, marrow-chilling tales, than you set off into the City of dreadful night.
		* Finally you stand between the walls of an ancient City burial ground, surrounded by tombstones, as the night begins to close in and the shadows darken and grow longer.
	www.london-ghost-tour.com /dreadful_night.htm (380 words)

	Nothing New Under The Sun - The City of Dreadful Night
		He has to destroy the city to save it, and only the superior individuals, the handful of Noble Souls like Humdinger Whosis and the Gamelys and the Penns, are in any danger that matters as random commuters and citizens are slaughtered like hogs as part of the price that must be paid.
		The fine bays and rivers that surrounded the city had been moved to come alight, and for a hundred miles the bays and rivers and the sea itself were a pale shimmering gold.
		Helprin could have overthrown the idea expressed by the doctor in the morgue, that the miserable and downtrodden of The City are beyond help, that their lives are not worth living, and that anyone who tries to remedy social injustice on any level is themselves necessarily corrupt as well as futile.
	bellatrys.livejournal.com /132265.html (10246 words)

	The City Of Dreadful Night :: AK Press
		James Thomson's epic poem "The City Of Dreadful Night" first appeared in 1874 and achieved some fame in its day, as it was read by many.
		In the decades that followed, however, the poem and the poet sank into obscurity, becoming known only to a few.
		Thomson's poem is a deeply questioning and extremely dark vision of the City that we inhabit.
	www.akpress.org /2005/items/cityofdreadfulnight (200 words)

	Canadian Dimension / Articles / Adobes of the Apocalypse (Bryan D. Palmer)
		On the edges of Mexico City, Harare, Manila and elsewhere, the poor rent undeveloped plots from dalals (an Indian word that translates as “middleman,” as well as “pimp”), who have secured guarantees of tenure from powerful politicians, tribal leaders, or criminal cartels.
		In Delhi in 1990, or in the shack cities of Beijing in 1995, this ratio would have been a nirvana of personal hygienic largesse.
		Davis describes southern slums as “stinking mountains of shit.” The health of the slum is a sanitation disaster, maintenance of potable water supplies in the Southern cities a battle lost long ago.
	canadiandimension.com /articles/2006/09/07/649 (1245 words)

	The City of Dreadful Night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The city was of Death as well as Night.
		For more by Kipling on night life in Lahore, see “In the House of Suddhoo”, “Beyond the Pale,” “The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows,” and other stories in Plain Tales from the Hills, and, “Without Benefit of Clergy” earlier in this volume.
		Never was there a more astonishing picture than that, all done in fl and white, which is called 'The City of Dreadful Night'.
	www.kipling.org.uk /rg_dreadful1.htm (351 words)

	Michael Cisco's "Jungle Mind" 5/05
		Stonier writes the living city from the point of view of a dead bypasser, while for Thomson the city is dead, and death.
		The poem is a testimony of undeserved and impersonal misery, which, while it strikes at the inner roots of the speaker’s being, is nevertheless a general condition of existence characteristic of modernity and the city.
		Seething further down, though, is a feeling of betrayal and a rage directed back at the sources of suffering, which are now the malice or indifference of the world, and now again are exactly those things which stir up hope or seek to overcome nihilism.
	www.themodernword.com /columns/cisco_007.html (1361 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00058654 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Publisher description for James Thomson's The city of dreadful night : a study of the cultural resources of its author and a reappraisal of the poem / Henry Paolucci ; with a preface to the 2000 edition by Anne Paolucci.
		At at time when many critics still viewed Thomson's City as the work of a gifted but erratic and sick poet with no cultural preparation to speak of, Henry Paolucci undertook to reassess both the reputation of the author and the quality of his work to prove otherwise.
		Thomson's City is a modern rendering of St. Augustine's City of Man.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/enhancements/fy0666/00058654-d.html (183 words)

	Amazon.com: City of Dreadful Night : A Tale of Horror and the Macabre in India: Books: Lee Siegel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		City of Dreadful Night : A Tale of Horror and the Macabre in India (Paperback)
		In an exuberantly described setting of India in all her violent wonders, we travel with an itinerant storyteller who wears a garland of animal skulls, a silver crucifix, and a battered English top hat adorned with peacock feathers.
		Here are stories within stories, starting even on the jacket copy, which claims Siegel went to India to research a book on Sanskrit horror literature and then, on the recommendation of a friend, traveled to Varanasi, City of Dreadful Night, to look for the aforementioned old storyteller--and so on into the tale.
	www.amazon.com /City-Dreadful-Night-Horror-Macabre/dp/0226756890 (1191 words)

	CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT\|THE - Sumner & Stillman
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		THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT and Other Places.
	www.sumnerandstillman.com /Catalog/sumner.cgi/1861 (221 words)

	Part 9: Restyling the Secret of the Opium Den
		The opium den episode in Wilde's novel is in many ways typical of a genre that flourished in late Victorian novels, tales, and periodicals--a genre that provides a glimpse, if not of the dens themselves, of the strategies used to represent the opium den.
		"A Night in an Opium Den" in The Strand, Volume 1, 1891.
		Both London, a Pilgrimage and "A Night in an Opium Den" (1891) feature illustrations of Asians smoking in the den to complement descriptions of the degenerate "Orientals" who have established colonies in the back alleys of the city.
	www.nyu.edu /library/bobst/research/fales/exhibits/wilde/8opium.htm (898 words)

	TIME.com: NEW WORLDS OF THE NEW WORLD -- Jun. 18, 1956 -- Page 1
		As American cities have grown steadily bigger and more weirdly beautiful, the nation's artists have turned increasingly from landscape to cityscape.
		Curator Kuh blurred her point occasionally by including abstractions from the hands of some artists, e.g., Franz Kline, Willem De Kooning, Jimmy Ernst, which bore no relation to any city unless it was the City of Dreadful Night.
		In their vision of the city, they found something new to conjure with: the starry, neon-lit quality of urban America as it shows itself by night.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,862255,00.html (555 words)

	Poet: James B.V. Thomson - All poems of James B.V. Thomson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		James Thomson (1834-82) was born at Port Glasgow.
		published: 04 Feb 2001, Fiction, Paperback, £6.99; City of Dreadful Night, James BV Thomson Canongate Classics, published: 01 Jan 2001, Poetry, Paperback,...
		The City of Dreadful Night is a long poem by the Scottish poet James "BV" Thomson, published in 1880 in a book entitled The City of Dreadful Night and Other...
	www.poemhunter.com /james-b-v-thomson (338 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99203252 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Classic history of the Victorian seat of the British Raj, setting for the notorious Black Hole where 2 score English settlers diedin an 18th century uprising, and today the 4th largest city in the world.
		Kipling called it the city of dreadful night - a city of unspeakable poverty, of famine, riot and disease.
		Yet Calcutta, once the seat of the Raj, is the 2nd city in the commonwealth, the 4th city in the world.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/orion051/99203252.html (132 words)

	The City of Dreadful Night - notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The City is of Night; perchance of Death,
		From the poem “The City of Dreadful Night” by James Thomson, (1834-1882).
		Zola Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola, (1840-1902} French writer of powerful realist novels, which were seen as shocking and sensational in his day.
	www.kipling.org.uk /rg_dreadful_notes.htm (598 words)

	Kipling, Rudyard, CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT and Other Places Depicted by Rudyard Kipling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kipling, Rudyard CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT and Other Places Depicted by Rudyard Kipling Allahabad A. Wheeler and Co 1891
		Written during his years in India, City of Dreadful Night was published in the popular Indian Railway Library.
		It describes the city of Calcutta in great detail including sections on the Police, The Railway Folk, and an Opium Factory.
	www.polybiblio.com /bud/2905.html (119 words)

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