THOMSON, JAMES (1834-1882)詹姆斯·湯姆遜，英國詩人
基本介紹
- 中文名：詹姆斯·湯姆遜
- 外文名：THOMSON, JAMES
- 國籍：英國
- 出生日期：1834
- 逝世日期：1882
- 職業：詩人
Poet, b. at Port Glasgow and brought up in the Royal Caledonian Asylum, was for some years an army teacher, but was dismissed for a breach of discipline. He became associated with Charles Bradlaugh, the free-thought protagonist, who introduced him to the conductors of various secularist publications. His best known poem is The City of Dreadful Night, deeply pessimistic. Others are Vane's Story and Weddah and Omel-Bonain. His views resulted in depression, which led to dipsomania, and he d. in poverty and misery. His work has a certain gloomy power which renders it distinctly noteworthy.
