TY - BOOK AU - Young,Edward AU - Gilfillan,George TI - Young's Night Thoughts: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes AV - PR PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - English poetry KW - Didactic poetry, English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night-Thoughts; Release date is 2010-07-14; Produced by Delphine Lettau, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Young's Night Thoughts" by Edward Young is a long poem published in nine parts between 1742 and 1745. The work records the poet's reflections on death as he mourns the loss of his wife and friends while contemplating human frailties. Written in blank verse across nine "nights," the poem explores themes of life, death, and immortality. It includes the famous line "procrastination is the thief of time" and was later illustrated with notable engravings by William Blake in 1797. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33156 ER -