Extollager
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Over at the "Kubla Kahn" thread I just posted a link to a text of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's narrative poem "Christabel," which is one of the masterpieces of the genre even though it wasn't finished.
The question presents itself -- are there any truly excellent poets alive now who are working in the vein of the weird fantastic? It would be interesting if such were interested in trying to finish the poem. There are indications of where it might have gone. See Nethercot's study The Road to Tryermaine.
I think Coleridge may have been feeling his way towards a resolution that might have had affinities with George MacDonald's masterpiece Lilith, which, I believe, Lovecraft knew and admired.
The question presents itself -- are there any truly excellent poets alive now who are working in the vein of the weird fantastic? It would be interesting if such were interested in trying to finish the poem. There are indications of where it might have gone. See Nethercot's study The Road to Tryermaine.
I think Coleridge may have been feeling his way towards a resolution that might have had affinities with George MacDonald's masterpiece Lilith, which, I believe, Lovecraft knew and admired.
