tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651641356618861735.post7508359840436705963..comments2024-03-29T00:33:16.988-07:00Comments on The Victorianist: Victorian Poetry for Christmas: Suspiria De Profundis by Robert Buchanan.The Amateur Casualhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15553683833137054780noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651641356618861735.post-62851158076041913842011-12-17T02:19:30.821-08:002011-12-17T02:19:30.821-08:00Thanks Rosa,
You're quite right that the most ...Thanks Rosa,<br />You're quite right that the most 'popular' (for want of a more appropriate word) bridge in London for suicides was Waterloo, and i'm sure I read somewhere once that in either the year 1840 or 1850, 30 people jumped from it to their death.<br /><br />Charles Knight (Who incidentally died in the town I used to live in, wrote compassionately on the subject in his great work 'London':<br /><br />"Remember with pain how many unfortunates have stood shivering in those very recesses, taking their last farewell of the world in which they had experienced so much misery. We have no idea, nor do we wish to have, of the entire extent of this dreadful evil, which has of late years given a new and most unhappy kind of celebrity to Waterloo Bridge, but the cases of accomplished and attempted suicide here must have been fearfully numerous."<br /><br />Thomas Hood's poem, 'The Bridge of Sighs' may also have contributed to the 'romance' of suicide by leaping from this particular bridge, too perhaps.The Amateur Casualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15553683833137054780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2651641356618861735.post-52775756987453463622011-12-16T11:50:10.499-08:002011-12-16T11:50:10.499-08:00Very touching poem. It reminds me that suicides be...Very touching poem. It reminds me that suicides became quite popular on Waterloo Bridge in the 1840's. I'm not sure why this location was and is often chosen, except that the beautiful view from it encompasses so much of London.The Victorian Timeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10002225049303391481noreply@blogger.com