''The Dark Chateau'' is a collection of poems by American writer
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 ...
. It was released in
1951
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January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the United ...
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.
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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 the Sunset"
* "Not Theirs the Cypress-Arch"
* "Don Quixote on Market Street"
* "Malediction"
* "Hellenic Sequel"
* "The Cypress"
* "The Old Water-Wheel"
* "Calenture"
* "Soliloquy in an Ebon Tower"
* "Sinbad, It Was Not Well to Brag"
* "Sonnet for the Psychoanalysts"
* "Surrealists Sonnet"
* "The Twilight of the Gods"
* "The Poet Talks With the Biographers"
* "Desert Dwellers"
* "Hesperian Fal"
* "'Not Altogether Sleep'"
* "Some Blind Eidolon"
* "The Isle of Saturn"
* "Oblivion"
* "Revenant"
* "In Slumber"
* "Cambion"
* "The Witch With Eyes of Amber"
* "The Outer Land"
* "Luna Aeternalis"
* "Ye Shall Return"
See also
*
Clark Ashton Smith bibliography
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1951 poetry books
American poetry collections
Arkham House books
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