On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:43:26 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:27:21 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:29:48 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 8:33:14 PM UTC-5, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 6:08:10 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 3:53:46 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 11:01:35 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
>
> > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
> > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
> > > > > > > about us the season
> > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
> > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
> > > > > > > as plains whereon
> > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
> > > > > > > [...]
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance.. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
> > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
> > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
> > >
> > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
> > >
> > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
> > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings. Algernon
> > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
> > >
> > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too.
> >
> > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian...
> >
> > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
> That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
>
> I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
>
> I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
>
> http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard.html
>
> and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
>
> http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard

Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 8:32:31 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:43:26 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:27:21 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:29:48 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 8:33:14 PM UTC-5, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 6:08:10 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 3:53:46 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 11:01:35 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> >
> > > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
> > > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
> > > > > > > > about us the season
> > > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
> > > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
> > > > > > > > as plains whereon
> > > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
> > > > > > > > [...]
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
> > > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
> > > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
> > > >
> > > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
> > > >
> > > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
> > > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings. Algernon
> > > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
> > > >
> > > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too.
> > >
> > > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian...
> > >
> > > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
> > That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
> >
> > I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
> >
> > I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
> >
> > http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard.html
> >
> > and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
> >
> > http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard
>
> Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Okay, thanks.

On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 8:50:44 AM UTC-4, Spam-I-Am wrote:
> On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 8:32:31 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:43:26 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:27:21 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:29:48 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 8:33:14 PM UTC-5, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 6:08:10 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 3:53:46 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 11:01:35 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > >
> > > > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
> > > > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
> > > > > > > > > about us the season
> > > > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
> > > > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
> > > > > > > > > as plains whereon
> > > > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
> > > > > > > > > [...]
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
> > > > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
> > > > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
> > > > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings. Algernon
> > > > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too.
> > > >
> > > > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian...
> > > >
> > > > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
> > > That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
> > >
> > > I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
> > >
> > > I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
> > >
> > > http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard.html
> > >
> > > and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
> > >
> > > http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard
> >
> > Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Okay, thanks.

Good morning, you're welcome.

On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 9:23:51 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 8:50:44 AM UTC-4, Spam-I-Am wrote:
> > On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 8:32:31 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:43:26 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:27:21 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:29:48 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 8:33:14 PM UTC-5, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 6:08:10 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 3:53:46 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 11:01:35 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
> > > > > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
> > > > > > > > > > about us the season
> > > > > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
> > > > > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
> > > > > > > > > > as plains whereon
> > > > > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
> > > > > > > > > > [...]
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
> > > > > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
> > > > > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
> > > > > >
>
> > > > > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
> > > > > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings.. Algernon
> > > > > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too.
> > > > >
> > > > > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian...
> > > > >
> > > > > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
> > > > That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
> > > >
> > > > I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
> > > >
> > > > I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
> > > >
> > > > http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard.html
> > > >
> > > > and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
> > > >
> > > > http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard
> > >
> > > Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Okay, thanks.
> Good morning, you're welcome.

Have a nice day.

On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 10:06:30 AM UTC-4, Spam-I-Am wrote:
> On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 9:23:51 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 8:50:44 AM UTC-4, Spam-I-Am wrote:
> > > On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 8:32:31 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:43:26 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:27:21 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:29:48 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 8:33:14 PM UTC-5, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 6:08:10 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > > > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 3:53:46 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 11:01:35 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
> > > > > > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
> > > > > > > > > > > about us the season
> > > > > > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
> > > > > > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
> > > > > > > > > > > as plains whereon
> > > > > > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
> > > > > > > > > > > [...]
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
> > > > > > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
> > > > > > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
> > > > > > >
> >
> > > > > > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm
sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do.. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
> > > > > > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings. Algernon
> > > > > > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian....
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
> > > > > That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
> > > > >
> > > > > I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
> > > > >
> > > > > http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard..html
> > > > >
> > > > > and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
> > > > >
> > > > > http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard
> > > >
> > > > Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > Okay, thanks.
> > Good morning, you're welcome.
> Have a nice day.

Likewise to you.

🙂

Will Dockery wrote:

> On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:43:26 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>> On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:27:21 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>> > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:29:48 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
>
>> > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
>> > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
>> > > > > > > about us the season
>> > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
>> > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
>> > > > > > > as plains whereon
>> > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
>> > > > > > > [...]
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance.. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
>> > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
>> > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
>> > >
>> > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
>> > >
>> > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
>> > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings. Algernon
>> > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
>> > >
>> > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too.
>> >
>> > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian...
>> >
>> > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
>> That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
>>
>> I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
>>
>> I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
>>
>> http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard.html
>>
>> and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
>>
>> http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard

> Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Robert E. Howard was a very good poet:

"Excerpts from the
Poetry of
Robert E. Howard"

http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm

Will Dockery wrote:

> On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:43:26 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>> On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:27:21 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>> > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:29:48 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
>
>>
>> > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
>> > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
>> > > > > > > about us the season
>> > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
>> > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
>> > > > > > > as plains whereon
>> > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
>> > > > > > > [...]
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance.. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
>> > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
>> > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
>> > >
>> > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
>> > >
>> > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
>> > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings. Algernon
>> > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
>> > >
>> > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too.
>> >
>> > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian...
>> >
>> > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
>> That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
>>
>> I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
>>
>> I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
>>
>> http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard.html
>>
>> and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
>>
>> http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard

> Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Cool find....

On Tuesday, September 6, 2022 at 7:50:11 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>
> > On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:43:26 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> >> On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:27:21 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> >> > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:29:48 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
> >> > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
> >> > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
> >> > > > > > > about us the season
> >> > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
> >> > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
> >> > > > > > > as plains whereon
> >> > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
> >> > > > > > > [...]
> >> > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance.. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
> >> > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
> >> > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
> >> > >
> >> > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
> >> > >
> >> > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
> >> > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings. Algernon
> >> > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
> >> > >
> >> > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too.
> >> >
> >> > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian...
> >> >
> >> > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
> >> That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
> >>
> >> I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
> >>
> >> I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
> >>
> >> http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard.html
> >>
> >> and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
> >>
> >> http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard
>
> > Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Cool find....

For those who have an interest in poetry.

General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>> On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:43:26 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>>> On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:27:21 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>>> > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:29:48 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
>>
>>> > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
>>> > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
>>> > > > > > >
>>> > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
>>> > > > > > > about us the season
>>> > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
>>> > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
>>> > > > > > > as plains whereon
>>> > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
>>> > > > > > > [...]
>>> > > > > > >
>>> > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance.. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
>>> > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
>>> > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
>>> > >
>>> > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
>>> > >
>>> > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
>>> > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings. Algernon
>>> > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
>>> > >
>>> > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too.
>>> >
>>> > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian...
>>> >
>>> > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
>>> That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
>>>
>>> I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
>>>
>>> I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
>>>
>>> http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard.html
>>>
>>> and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
>>>
>>> http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard

>> Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Robert E. Howard was a very good poet:

> "Excerpts from the
> Poetry of
> Robert E. Howard"

> http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm

Good find, Zod.

Spam-I-Am wrote:

> On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 8:32:31 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> George Dance wrote:
>> > Will Dockery wrote:
>> >> George Dance wrote:
>
>> > > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
>> > > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
>> > > > > > > > about us the season
>> > > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
>> > > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
>> > > > > > > > as plains whereon
>> > > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
>> > > > > > > > [...]
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
>> > > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
>> > > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
>> > > >
>> > > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
>> > > >
>> > > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
>> > > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings. Algernon
>> > > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
>> > > >
>> > > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too.
>> > >
>> > > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian...
>> > >
>> > > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
>> > That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
>> >
>> > I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
>> >
>> > I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
>> >
>> > http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard.html
>> >
>> > and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
>> >
>> > http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard
>>
>> Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Okay, thanks.

Good morning, you're welcome.

🙂

Spam-I-Am wrote:

> On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 8:32:31 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:43:26 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>> > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:27:21 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>> > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:29:48 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
>> > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 8:33:14 PM UTC-5, Michael Pendragon wrote:
>> > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 6:08:10 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
>> > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 3:53:46 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>> > > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 11:01:35 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
>> >
>> > > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
>> > > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
>> > > > > > > > about us the season
>> > > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
>> > > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
>> > > > > > > > as plains whereon
>> > > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
>> > > > > > > > [...]
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
>> > > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
>> > > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
>> > > >
>> > > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
>> > > >
>> > > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
>> > > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings. Algernon
>> > > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
>> > > >
>> > > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too.
>> > >
>> > > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian...
>> > >
>> > > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
>> > That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
>> >
>> > I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
>> >
>> > I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
>> >
>> > http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard.html
>> >
>> > and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
>> >
>> > http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard
>>
>> Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Okay, thanks.

Thanks again for your interest.

On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 9:21:30 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Spam-I-Am wrote:
>
> > On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 8:32:31 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> >> On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:43:26 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> >> > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:27:21 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> >> > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:29:48 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> >> > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 8:33:14 PM UTC-5, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> >> > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 6:08:10 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> >> > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 3:53:46 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> >> > > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 11:01:35 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
> >> > > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
> >> > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
> >> > > > > > > > about us the season
> >> > > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
> >> > > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
> >> > > > > > > > as plains whereon
> >> > > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
> >> > > > > > > > [...]
> >> > > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
> >> > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
> >> > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
> >> > > > > > >
> >> > > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
> >> > > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
> >> > > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
> >> > > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings. Algernon
> >> > > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too.
> >> > >
> >> > > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian...
> >> > >
> >> > > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
> >> > That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
> >> >
> >> > I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
> >> >
> >> > I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
> >> >
> >> > http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard.html
> >> >
> >> > and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
> >> >
> >> > http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard
> >>
> >> Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> > Okay, thanks.
> Thanks again for your interest.

I wasn’t interested.

On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 9:34:41 AM UTC-4, Spam-I-Am wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 9:21:30 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > Spam-I-Am wrote:
> >
> > > On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 8:32:31 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > >> On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:43:26 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> > >> > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:27:21 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > >> > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:29:48 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > >> > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 8:33:14 PM UTC-5, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > >> > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 6:08:10 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > >> > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 3:53:46 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > >> > > > > > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 11:01:35 AM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
> > >> > > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
> > >> > > > > > > >
> > >> > > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
> > >> > > > > > > > about us the season
> > >> > > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
> > >> > > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
> > >> > > > > > > > as plains whereon
> > >> > > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
> > >> > > > > > > > [...]
> > >> > > > > > > >
> > >> > > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
> > >> > > > > > >
> > >> > > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
> > >> > > > > > >
> > >> > > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
> > >> > > > > > >
> > >> > > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
> > >> > > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
> > >> > > > > >
> > >> > > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
> > >> > > > > >
> > >> > > > >
> > >> > > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
> > >> > > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
> > >> > > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings. Algernon
> > >> > > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too..
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian....
> > >> > >
> > >> > > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
> > >> > That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
> > >> >
> > >> > I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
> > >> >
> > >> > I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
> > >> >
> > >> > http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard.html
> > >> >
> > >> > and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
> > >> >
> > >> > http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard
> > >>
> > >> Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > > Okay, thanks.
> > Thanks again for your interest.
> I wasn’t interested.

That's okay.

Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>> On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:43:26 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>>> On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 10:27:21 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>>> > On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:29:48 PM UTC-5, George Dance wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> > > > > > > Today on The Penny Blog:
>>> > > > > > > If Winter Remain, by Clark Ashton Smith
>>> > > > > > >
>>> > > > > > > Hateful, and most abhorred,
>>> > > > > > > about us the season
>>> > > > > > > of sleet, of snow and of frost
>>> > > > > > > reaches, and seems unending
>>> > > > > > > as plains whereon
>>> > > > > > > lashed prisoners go
>>> > > > > > > [...]
>>> > > > > > >
>>> > > > > > > http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2015/02/if-winter-remain-clark-ashton-smith.html
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > Aha, I remember Clark Ashton Smith from my later childhood days, when I was steeped in Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, the Cthulu Mythos, and all the lurching shambling horrors that went with it. Great stuff, and very influential on the Shadowville scene.
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > Here's a groovy quote from C.A.S.
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > "The nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times. Often I long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance.. I sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond Cathay or Taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli."
>>> > > > > > -Clark Ashton Smith, "Nostalgia of the Unknown"
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > I'm glad you know of that tradition (which I didn't until I started working on PPP). I wonder if Michael does, since it's the one he actually works within. It's a shame, really; if it weren't for the Mickey Mouse Act of 1998, all their works would be public domain by now, and everyone would probably be well aware of them; but nowadays one won't find any of their poetry without digging for it.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > When I was publishing "Penny Dreadful," I corresponded with a lot fellow
>>> > > > writers with similar tastes (most of them living in England); and was a member > of The Doppelganger Society which published a broadsheet that focused on horror > and fantasy writings from that period.
>>> > >
>>> > > Sorry if I was unclear. I'm sure you know a lot more about the Cthulu writers' horror fiction than I do. And I'm sure that nearly every reader has at least heard of it. I was referring to their poetry: I'd had no idea that Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, and Frank Belknap Long all wrote Romantic/Gothic poetry, too; that's the part I fear may be being forgotten. I've never read a word in any poetry texts or anthologies that I've read (mind you, that's true of a number of top-notch poets, like Vachel Lindsay and Alfred Noyes, as well). As far as academia is concerned, their poetry never existed. And, due to the absurd U.S. copyright term, the Internet can't be counted on to fill the vacuum, either.
>>> > >
>>> > > > Robert W. Chambers, M.P. Shiel, M.R. James and William Hope Hodgson are other
>>> > > > writers from this tradition who've still got large followings. Algernon
>>> > > > Blackwood is my personal favorite.
>>> > >
>>> > > I'll search to see if (and what) poetry these writers have published. If I find some for anyone, I'll be sure to add him to the wiki, too.
>>> >
>>> > Robert E. Howard is fairly well represented online with his poetry, probably because he's so famous as the creator of Conan The Barbarian...
>>> >
>>> > http://users.rcn.com/shogan/howard/excerpts/epoetry.htm
>>> That was a new site to me, which I've added to Howard's article as an EL. Notice, though, that the guy doesn't print complete poems but only excerpts (probably because of copyright restrictions).
>>>
>>> I'd call Howard one of the hardest to use; the problem being that, although he died in 1936 (meaning anything he published in his lifetime is in the public domain in Canada and Europe), none of his poetry appears to have been published in book form before 1957.
>>>
>>> I've been able to find only two sites which feature complete poems by REH: a blog with 6 poems in an introductory essay on a weblog
>>>
>>> http://themysticfool.blogspot.ca/2007/12/poems-by-robert-e-howard.html
>>>
>>> and 19 poems on the AllPoetry site
>>>
>>> http://allpoetry.com/Robert-E.--Howard

>> Our discussion that included Robert E Howard, from a few years ago. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Cool find....

Good afternoon, my friend.