{"product_id":"youngs-night-thoughts","title":"Night Thoughts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat fills the dark when sleep will not come, and grief leaves you alone with time?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Young's Night Thoughts, Edward Young gives us a speaker awake while the world rests. Across nine parts, called Nights, this long poem turns sleeplessness into a meditation on life, death and the soul. The opening address to sleep leads into urgent questions about wasted hours, friendship and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe speaker mourns Narcissa, a young woman who has died, and addresses Lorenzo, an imagined, pleasure-loving unbeliever. Their argument reaches beyond sorrow: what makes life meaningful, and what are ambition and worldly rewards worth? Young's speaker argues for Christian faith and immortality, setting religious hope against doubt in steady, unrhymed verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe sleepless opening\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enter a quiet world where the absence of sleep makes every passing hour feel urgent.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGrief given a name\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet Narcissa through the speaker's mourning, as reflection on death becomes a deeply personal sorrow.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAn argument with Lorenzo\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow a sustained challenge to pleasure, unbelief and the rewards the world teaches people to seek.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFaith under discussion\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore The Christian Triumph and The Infidel Reclaimed, where Young's speaker makes his case for immortality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe pull of ambition\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover The Relapse and Virtue's Apology, with their questions about gain, goodness and worldly judgment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers of eighteenth-century poetry, lovers of long meditative poems, and anyone curious about grief and faith before the Romantics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now, and let the speaker's wakeful questions draw you into the night.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534654964060,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/02359_en_ebook-front_c04.jpg?v=1792175012","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/fi\/products\/youngs-night-thoughts","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}