James (Bysshe Vanolis) Thomson
November 23, 1834 – June 03, 1882
Countries:
United Kingdom
Place of Birth:
Port Glasgow, Scotland
Place of Death:
London, England
Categories:
Poetry
James Thomson (November 23, 1834 - June 3, 1882), published under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Victorian-era British poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night (1874), an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment.