Need help to identify a poem.

[Brendan85]

Hello,

Years back I ran across a poem by an obscure British poet who lived in what I think was the 17th or 18th centuries. It was titled with the word "City" and was a manifestion of the author's despondence with coming to terms with his athiesm. In the poem he describes people as "ghosts" wandering the city. Can anyone help? I beleve his last name began with a "B" if it helps any.

[wessexgirl]

Could it be Blake? I know he wasn't an atheist, but he did have a strange sort of religiosity, and I believe attacked the organised church and established religion. Try "London".

[Brendan85]

Could it be Blake? I know he wasn't an atheist, but he did have a strange sort of religiosity, and I believe attacked the organised church and established religion. Try "London".

Unfortunately not, although it's a excellent poem? Also, I must revise my time spectrum, I had by hundreds and centuries mixed up, it would be the 18th and 19th centuries.

[Petrarch's Love]

Hi Brendan. I think the poem you mean is "The City of Dreadful Night" by James, "B.V." Thompson, available here: http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/ctdnt10.htm.

[Brendan85]

Hi Brendan. I think the poem you mean is "The City of Dreadful Night" by James, "B.V." Thompson, available here: http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/ctdnt10.htm.

That's it! Merci Beaucoup!