“The City at the End of Things”

Title“The City at the End of Things”
Year for Search1894
AuthorsLampman, Archibald(1861-99)
Secondary TitleThe Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA)
Volume / Edition73.3
Pagination350-52
Date PublishedMarch 1894
KeywordsCanadian author, Male author
Annotation

Dystopian poem about a city that was once vibrant but is now mostly a machine without humans. 

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in A Victorian Anthology 1837-1895. Selections Illustrating the Editor’s Critical Review of British Poetry in the Reign of Victoria. Ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1895), 2: 661-62; in his Alcyone (Ottawa, ON, Canada: James Ogilvy, 1899), 5-8 (12 copy edition); and as The City at the End of Things. Ottawa, ON, Canada: The Golden Dog, 1973. Mss. with various titles dated 1892 are held by Public Archives of Canada and the University of Toronto Library. A note in the Golden Dog edition says that the reprints included errors. 

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Author Note

Canadian author (1861-99).

Full Text

1894 Lampman, Archibald (1861-99). “The City at the End of Things.” The Atlantic Monthly 73.3 (March 1894): 350-52. Rpt. in A Victorian Anthology 1837-1895. Selections Illustrating the Editor’s Critical Review of British Poetry in the Reign of Victoria. Ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1895), 2: 661-62; in his Alcyone (Ottawa, ON, Canada: James Ogilvy, 1899), 5-8 (12 copy edition); and as The City at the End of Things. Ottawa, ON, Canada: The Golden Dog, 1973. Mss. with various titles dated 1892 are held by Public Archives of Canada and the University of Toronto Library. A note in the Golden Dog edition says that the reprints included errors. PSt

Dystopian poem about a city that was once vibrant but is now mostly a machine without humans. Canadian author.