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unusual facts about Night Thoughts



A Vision of the Last Judgment

The figure of time appears in other works by Blake, including as the figure Los and in the illustration Blake made for Edward Young's Night Thoughts.


see also

Charles-Pierre Colardeau

His most notable works are an imitation of Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope and a translation of the first two sections of Night-Thoughts by Edward Young.

In 1770, he put into verse the first two parts of Edward Young's Night-Thoughts, whose French translation had just been published.

Edward Young

Selections from Night Thoughts was also set by New England Congregationalist composer William Billings in his Easter Anthem.

Johann Arnold Ebert

Most influential was his translation of Edward Young's Night-Thoughts, which elicited a rapturous enthusiasm for Young and a large number of imitations.

Sergey Glinka

Glinka's poems are spirited and patriotic; he wrote also several dramatic pieces, and translated Edward Young's Night Thoughts.