Gass, William H. (22 August 1968). "The Evil Demiurge". The New York Review. ISSN 0028-7504 . Retrieved 28 September 2022. Pound Arts also organises two annual festivals: the Blue Sky Festival in June, for various art forms including music and comedy; [11] and the Magic and Mayhem Festival in November, featuring magic, burlesque, music hall and other decadent arts. [12] Parish [ edit ] Gastard [ edit ]

The first official census of 1801 showed Corsham having 2,402 inhabitants, while that of 2011 recorded exactly 13,000. The increase shown for 1840 is due to the influx of stone workers and the arrival of the Great Western Railway. [4] No census was taken in 1941 due to the Second World War, but the jump in population (from 3,754 in 1931 to 9,268 in 1951, an increase of 147%) is attributable to the influx of military personnel. [28]Pevsner writes: "A large church with a commanding S tower with spire. It looks as if it were all built for the great house and the estate in the days of Victorian prosperity. In fact Street only restored an old church, but he did it unfortunately thoroughly, and he added the tower." [18] The parish includes the villages of Gastard and Neston, which is at the gates of the Neston Park estate. a b c d e f g h i j "Corsham". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council . Retrieved 22 August 2019.

In 1942, Cioran met Simone Boué, another insomniac, whom he lived with for the rest of his life. Cioran kept their relationship entirely private, and never spoke of his relationship with Boué in his writings or interviews. [26] Sir Gabriel Goldney, 1st Baronet of Beechfield (1813–1900), MP for Chippenham, and the later Goldney baronetsCorsham Town Football Club – Club History". Archived from the original on 7 February 2002 . Retrieved 13 July 2008. Corsham Cellars at Octavian Vaults". Archived from the original on 13 September 2015 . Retrieved 18 September 2015. Exercices d'admiration 1986, and Aveux et anathèmes 1987 (tr. and grouped as "Anathemas and Admirations") The Pound is an arts venue and community hub for north Wiltshire, run by the Pound Arts Trust and supported by Arts Council England, Wiltshire Council, South Gloucestershire Council and Corsham Town Council. Their Rural Touring Scheme take performances to villages in Wiltshire and South Gloucestershire. [10]

Cioran started writing The Passionate Handbook in 1940 and finished it by 1945. It was the last book he wrote in Romanian, though not the last to deal with pessimism and misanthropy through lyrical aphorisms. Cioran published books only in French thereafter. It was at this point that Cioran's apparent contempt for the Romanian people emerged. He told a friend that he "wanted to write a Philosophy of Failure, with the subtitle For the exclusive use of the Romanian People". [24] Furthermore, he described his move to Paris as "by far the most intelligent thing" he had ever done, and in The Trouble with Being Born he says, "In continual rebellion against my ancestry, I have spent my whole life wanting to be something else: Spanish, Russian, cannibal—anything, except what I was." [25] Monk's Lane Chapel". Wiltshire Council. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 4 May 2016. Society of Friends, Monk's Lane". Wiltshire Council. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 . Retrieved 4 May 2016.The Great Western Main Line railway from London to Bristol, Exeter and Penzance passes through the town, though Corsham station closed in 1965. Proposals to reopen the station have been put forward since at least 2009, [68] and in 2021 a feasibility study was approved by the Department for Transport. [69] Aphorisms make up a large portion of Cioran's bibliography, and some of his books, such as The Trouble with Being Born, are composed entirely of aphorisms. Speaking about this decision, Cioran said: Particular Baptist Chapel". Wiltshire Council. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 4 May 2016. Historically, Corsham was a centre for agriculture and later, the wool industry, and remains a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It has several notable historic buildings; among them the stately home of Corsham Court. During the Second World War and the Cold War it became a major administrative and manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with numerous establishments both above ground and in disused quarry tunnels. [4]

Cioran's first book, Pe culmile disperării (literally translated: "On the Heights of Despair"), was published in Romania in 1934. It was awarded the Commission's Prize and the Young Writers Prize for one of the best books written by an unpublished young writer. Regardless, Cioran later spoke negatively of it, saying "it is a very poorly written book, without any style." [10] Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC West and ITV West Country. Television signals is received from the Mendip and the local relay transmitters. [91] [92] His works often depict an atmosphere of torment, a state that Cioran himself experienced, and came to be dominated by lyricism and, often, the expression of intense and even violent feeling. The books he wrote in Romanian especially display this latter characteristic. Preoccupied with the problems of death and suffering, he was attracted to the idea of suicide, believing it to be an idea that could help one go on living, an idea which he fully explored in On the Heights of Despair. He revisits suicide in depth in The New Gods, which contains a section of aphorisms devoted to the subject. The theme of human alienation, the most prominent existentialist theme, presented by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, is thus formulated, in 1932, by young Cioran: "Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?" in On the Heights of Despair. [34]

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In 2014, scenes for the new adaptation of Poldarkwere filmed in the town's High Street, meaning Corsham then featured in every series until the drama ended in 2019. [90] Media [ edit ] Demographic data for SN13 (Corsham)". www.mouseprice.com. Archived from the original on 25 August 2009 . Retrieved 6 August 2008. Corsham is a historic market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. [3] It is at the south-western edge of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 national route, 28 miles (45km) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32km) east of Bristol, 8 miles (13km) northeast of Bath and 4 miles (6km) southwest of Chippenham.