Lovecraft's Poems to Be Read
Posted by:
Dale Nelson (IP Logged)
Date: 20 February, 2021 04:20PM
There are those who will read anything by HPL. I remember one of S. T. Joshi's biographies that puts "Fair Ermentrude" (?) on the rack for several pages of analysis. Thanks, but no thanks!
But what I wondered about was this: what are the poems that, from your own experience of HPL's work, you'd recommend as worth reading other than by Lovecraft completists?
I suppose that, at a place like ED, the 36 Fungi from Yuggoth sonnets, "Nemesis," and "The Ancient Track," may be assumed. Is there anything else?
(I got thinking about this as a tangent to my recent return to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I've tended to assume[i] that one needn't bother with anything other than the priceless trio of [i]The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and "Kubla Khan," and a few other poems -- "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," the Dejection Ode, "Frost at Midnight," "The Pains of Sleep," and "Phantom" ("All look and likeness"). But STC wrote hundreds of pages more, so is that assumption really likely to be true?)