"The City of Dreadful Night" is a long poem by the Scottish writer James Thomson. The poem is noted for the pessimistic philosophy that it expresses with many also arguing that the dreadful city being referred to is London during the 1870s. The City of Dreadful Night came about from his struggle with alcoholism and chronic depression and the Increasing isolation from friends and society in general. Though the circumstance of its creation is bleak, this poem shot Thomson to notoriety.
