Poetry about Lovecraft

[ghyle]

Which poems about Lovecraft do you know about? I am interested in collecting them, and editing a book of older and specifically written material, so this would be the first step.

Phillip

 

[Ningauble]

Which poems about Lovecraft do you know about? I am interested in collecting them, and editing a book of older and specifically written material, so this would be the first step.

Phillip

By Clark Ashton Smith: "To Howard Phillips Lovecraft", "H. P. L."

By August Derleth: "Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight", "On Reading Old Letters. For H. P. L.", "Elegy: In Providence the Spring"

By R. H. Barlow: "H. P. L.", a series of poems written over several years

By Samuel Loveman "Winter", "To Satan" (they were dedicated to HPL, at least), "To Mr. Theobald", "To H. P. L."

By Alfred Galpin: "Selenaio-Phantasma" (dedicated to HPL)

By Rheinhart Kleiner: "Dream Days; or, Metrical Musings III. 'As Howard P. Lovecraft Might Have Given It Eighteenth Century Garb, in his Favorite Metre'" (possibly), "At Providence in 1918", "Epistle to Mr. and Mrs. Lovecraft", "The Four of Us!", "After a Decade", "H. P. L."

By J. Vernon Shea: "The Dream-World of H. P. Lovecraft", "A Walk in Providence", "HPL's Gravestone", "So Little Time Beneath the Stars", "Here at Swan Point"

By Henry Kuttner: "H. P. L."

By Emil Petaja: "Lost Dream"

By Francis Flagg: "To Howard Phillips Lovecraft"

By Frank Belknap Long: "H. P. Lovecraft"

By Charles E. White: "For the Outsider: H. P. Lovecraft"

By Richard Ely Morse: "In Memoriam: H. P. Lovecraft"

These are the ones I can find at short notice; I could possibly come up with more. Check out old issues of Weird Tales; there were apparently lots of poetic tributes to HPL after he died.

Sounds like a fun collection!

 

[j d worthington]

Ningauble has mentioned those I can recall right off the bat, though I believe he's right that there were some scattered in WT shortly after HPL's death. (I used to have some of those issues, but that was many, many years ago now, so I can no longer look them up...)

Query: Are you interested in those which are tributes only, or those which also utilize HPL as a character or narrative voice as well? I vaguely recall there being a few of those around, too, though I can't for the life of me recall titles at the moment....

 

[ghyle]

Primarily tributes to him, and dedicated to him. I've dedicated poems to people, of course, that have not been about them, and they would count.

Thanks, Ningauble, for that well-written list!