Talk:The City of Dreadful Night
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London? Need a Cite
[edit]Thomson himself never said so, and given the physical description of the city -- the tidal flood plains at its foot where people are washed ashore, the constant eerie half-light, the figure of Melancholia high above -- a much stronger case could be made for, say, St. Petersberg.
And the description of the poem in Wikipedia's Thomson article is a travesty imho. EB—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.231.213.21 (talk) 07:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thompson lived in London for most of his life, as William Sharpe in his essay on the poem points out: W. Sh., Learning to Read "The City", Victorian Poetry, Volume 22, Number 1, Spring 1984, p. 65-84. I like this essay, but do not want to give it as prime reference in the WP article, because I simply cannot judge its relevance.
- Sharpe sees A Lady of Sorrow (1864), which is set in London ("I lived in London, and alone...") as "the primary antecedent to The City" (p. 69/note 8).--Radh (talk) 08:23, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Clinical depression?
[edit]Evidence for this?
I hear,too, that Mozart had Asperger's Syndrome.
And that Beethoven was bi-polar.
That no-one is unique, or possessed of genius. It's all health-and-diet and childhood abuse-related.
Please... 121.44.161.243 (talk) 07:13, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
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