Works by James “B.V.” Thomson – “The City of Dreadful Night” & “Satires & Profanities” – are available free online via @gutenberg_org
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The wine of Love is music,
And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
Love sits long:
Sits long and ariseth drunken,
But not with the feast and the wine;
He reeleth with his own heart,
That great rich Vine.
—James “B.V.” Thomson, “The Wine of Love”
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An extract from a film by Ernest Schonfield of the poet Tom Leonard speaking extempore about writing the biography PLACES OF THE MIND (Cape, 1993), on the life & work of James “B.V.” Thomson
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The City is of Night; perchance of Death…
James “B.V.” Thomson (1834–1882) – poet, journalist, translator, anarchist, atheist – was born #OTD, 23 Nov, in Port Glasgow. Best known for his long poem THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT, he influenced TS Eliot & is seen as a progenitor of Modernism
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“It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.” ―T.S. Eliot
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The women come and go, talking of Michelangelo. I keep telling them, he never lived here.
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, Slipped by the terrace, made…
Happy Waste-Land Day!
On 10/16/1922, T.S. Eliot launched the journal The Criterion magazine, with the first appearance of his poem "The Waste-Land". It will be first fully published in book form by Boni & Liveright in New York in December.
On 16 October 1922, "The Criterion" published T. S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land", with a procession of the dead in London: "A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, / I had not thought death had undone so many. " Ten days later, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Virginia
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