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Spells And Philtres
''Spells and Philtres'' is a collection of poems by Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1958 and was the author's fifth book and second collection of poetry to be published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 519 copies. The book was a second stop-gap volume following '' The Dark Chateau''. It represented Smith's poetry while the more extensive '' Selected Poems'' was being prepared which did not ultimately appear until 1971. The collection also includes several translations of French and Spanish poems. Clérigo Herrero, however, is not a real person and the poem is actually a composition of Smith's. Contents ''Spells and Philtres'' contains the following poems: * "Dedication" * "Didus Ineptus" * "Thebaid" * "Secret Love" * "The Pagan" * "Tired Gardener" * "Nada" * "High Surf" * "The Centaur" * "Said the Dreamer" * "The Nameless Wraith" * "The Blindness of Orion" * "Jungle Twilight" * "The Phoenix" * "The Prophet Speaks" * "Farewell to Eros" * "Alternative" * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures". Smith was one of "the big three of ''Weird Tales'', with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft", but some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. The fantasy critic L. Sprague de Camp said of him th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the '' Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkham House
Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had previously been published only in pulp magazines. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham, Massachusetts. Arkham House editions are noted for the quality of their printing and binding. The colophon for Arkham House was designed by Frank Utpatel. Founding In late 1937, after Lovecraft's death, Derleth and Wandrei sought to produce a collection of their friend's best weird fiction from the pulp magazines into a memorial volume. After several failed attempts to interest major publishers in the omnibus volume, the two men realized no publisher would be willing to take a chance with the collection. Derleth and Wandrei then decided to form their own company, Arkham House with the express purpose of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcover
A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather). It has a flexible, sewn spine which allows the book to lie flat on a surface when opened. Modern hardcovers may have the pages glued onto the spine in much the same way as paperbacks. Following the ISBN sequence numbers, books of this type may be identified by the abbreviation Hbk. Hardcover books are often printed on acid-free paper, and they are much more durable than paperbacks, which have flexible, easily damaged paper covers. Hardcover books are marginally more costly to manufacture. Hardcovers are frequently protected by artistic dust jackets, but a "jacketless" alternative has increased in popularity: these "paper-over-board" or "jacketless" hardcover bindings forgo the dust jacket in favor of printing the cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1958. Events *January 7 – Tennessee Williams' one-act plays ''Suddenly, Last Summer'' and '' Something Unspoken'' are premièred off-Broadway. *January 13 – In ''One, Inc. v. Olesen'', the Supreme Court of the United States affirms that homosexual writing is not as such obscene. *March 29 – The stage première of Max Frisch's dark comedy ''Biedermann und die Brandstifter'' (known in English as '' The Fire Raisers'') takes place at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. *April 28 – The première of Harold Pinter's play '' The Birthday Party'' is held at the Cambridge Arts Theatre in England, with Richard Pearson playing the lead as Stanley. *May 19 – The London début of the production of Pinter's ''The Birthday Party'', starring Richard Pearson, takes place at the Lyric Opera House (Hammersmith). It closes after a week, but its reputation is saved by a review by Harold Hobson in ''The Sunday Times' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Chateau
''The Dark Chateau'' is a collection of poems by American writer Clark Ashton Smith. It was released in 1951 and was the author's fourth book to be published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 563 copies. The book was intended to be a stop-gap volume representing Smith's poetry while the more extensive '' Selected Poems'' was being prepared, although ''Selected Poems'' did not ultimately appear until 1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja .... Contents ''The Dark Chateau'' contains the following poems: * "Amithaine" * "Seeker" * "The Dark Chateau" * "Lamia" * "Pour Chercher du Nouveau" * "'O Golden-Tongued Romance'" * "Averoigne" * "Zothique" * "The Stylite" * "Dominium in Excelsis" * "Moly" * "Two Myths and a Fable" * "Eros of Ebony" * "Shapes in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selected Poems (C
Among the numerous literary works titled ''Selected Poems'' are the following: * ''Selected Poems'' (Conrad Aiken) by Conrad Aiken *'' Selected Poems (Robert Frost)'' by Robert Frost * ''Selected Poems'' (Galway Kinnell) by Galway Kinnell * ''Selected Poems'' (MacDiarmid) by Hugh MacDiarmid * ''Selected Poems'' (Howard Moss) by Howard Moss * ''Selected Poems'' (Robert Nathan) by Robert Nathan * ''Selected Poems'' (Sylvia Plath) by Sylvia Plath *''Selected Poems (Robert Pinsky)'' by Robert Pinsky * ''Selected Poems'' (J. C. Ransom) by John Crowe Ransom * ''Selected Poems'' (C. A. Smith) by Clark Ashton Smith * ''Selected Poems'' (James Tate) by James Tate * ''Selected Poems'' (Vern Rutsala) by Vern Rutsala See also *Collected Poems (other) Among the numerous literary works titled ''Collected Poems'' are the following: * ''Collected Poems'' (Achebe) by Chinua Achebe * ''Collected Poems'' (Berry) by Wendell Berry * ''Collected Poems'' (Boyle) by Kay Boyle * ''Collected Poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1971. Events * March 25–December 14 – The 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals reaches a peak. * April 21 – The 13th-century ''Codex Regius'' manuscript is returned by Denmark to Iceland under naval escort. *July 4 – Michael S. Hart posts the first e-book, a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's mainframe computer, as the origin of Project Gutenberg. *July 14 – Simon Gray's play '' Butley'' has its first performance at the Criterion Theatre in London, produced by Michael Codron and directed by Harold Pinter, with Alan Bates in the lead. *October 20 – ''The Destiny Waltz'' by Gerda Charles wins the U.K.'s first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. Geoffrey Hill wins the poetry prize for ''Mercian Hymns'' and Michael Meyer the biography category for ''Henrik Ibsen''. *November – Hunter S. Thompson's ''roman à clef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida (17 February 1836 – 22 December 1870), better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (), was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer (mostly short stories), also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing. Today he is considered one of the most important figures in Spanish literature, and is considered by some as the most read writer after Miguel de Cervantes. He adopted the alias of Bécquer as his brother Valeriano Bécquer, a painter, had done earlier. He was associated with the romanticism and post-romanticism movements and wrote while realism was enjoying success in Spain. He was moderately well known during his life, but it was after his death that most of his works were published. His best known works are the ''Rhymes'' and the ''Legends,'' usually published together as ''Rimas y leyendas''. These poems and tales are essential to the study of Spanish literature and common reading for high-school students in Spanish-speaking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-Marie-René Leconte De Lisle
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (; 22 October 1818 – 17 July 1894) was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle''. Biography Leconte de Lisle was born on the French overseas island of La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. He spent his childhood there and later in Brittany. Among his friends in those years was the musician Charles Bénézit. His father, an army surgeon who brought Leconte up with great severity, sent him to travel in the East Indies intending to prepare him for a business career. However, after returning from this journey, the young man preferred to complete his education in Rennes, Brittany, specializing in Greek, Italian and history. In 1845 he settled definitively in Paris.Jean Mistler Speech at the Bibliothèque nationale (1977) He was involved in the French Revolution of 1848 which ended with the overthrow of the Orleans King Louis-Philppe of France, but took no further part in politics aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poetry, French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited from Romantics, but are based on observations of real life. His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled ''Les Fleurs du mal'' (''The Flowers of Evil''), expresses the changing nature of beauty in the rapidly industrializing Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, among many others. He is credited with coining the term modernity (''modernité'') to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. Marshall Berman has credited Baudelaire as being the first Modernism, Modernis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography
The following is a list of works by Clark Ashton Smith. __TOC__ Short fiction Prose poems Novel * ''The Black Diamonds'', written in 1907, published in 2002 Plays * ''The Dead will Cuckold You'': A Drama in Six Acts (in verse). Written in 1951. First published in 1989* ''The Fugitives'': a fragment. Written on September 17, 1922. Published in 1989* ''Venus And The Priest'': a fragment. Published in 1989 Lyrics * ''The Dream Bridge'': Music by Henry Cowell, words by Clark Ashton Smith. Written c. 1920* ''Impression'': Music by Joseph W. Grant, words by Clark Ashton Smith* ''White Death'': Music by Henry Cowell, words by Clark Ashton Smith. Written in Sept 1915 Poetry Poems (including translations)Titles and dates based on the bibliography established bwww.eldritchdark.com by Clark Ashton Smith: *Abandoned Plum-Orchard (1958) *Abel et Caïn (CXLIV. Abel et Caïn) *The Absence of the Muse (Oct 1921) *The Abyss Triumphant (3 Aug 1912) *Adjuration (1976) *Adventure (14 Feb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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