THE POETRY of H. P. Lovecraft (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Cosmic horror and American gothic verse from New England's shadows: elder gods, weird dreams, supernatural dreadBy H. P. Lovecraft
Length3h 34m
About this audiobook
The Poetry of H. P. Lovecraft gathers the verse of a writer more often remembered for cosmic horror, revealing the formal, antiquarian, and philosophical foundations beneath his fiction. These poems range from Augustan satire and Georgian pastoral to dream-visions, macabre lyrics, and sonnets of cosmic dread. Their diction is deliberately archaic, their meters disciplined, and their imaginative world steeped in Poe, Dunsany, Milton, and the eighteenth-century classicists. Read together, they illuminate Lovecraft's literary context: a modern writer resisting modernity through inherited forms while transforming them into vehicles for alienation, nightmare, and metaphysical terror. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), born in Providence, Rhode Island, was an autodidact whose intense reading, isolation, antiquarian tastes, and fascination with astronomy shaped nearly all his work. His poetry reflects the same preoccupations that animate his tales: the fragility of human knowledge, the allure of the past, and the terrifying vastness of the cosmos. This volume is recommended for readers who wish to understand Lovecraft beyond the Cthulhu Mythos. It is especially valuable for students of weird literature, poetic traditionalism, and the evolution of twentieth-century horror.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length3 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 15, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE POETRY of H. P. Lovecraft (Annotated)
26The Peace Advocate
2Introduction
27Ode for July Fourth, 1917
3Author Biography
28Nemesis
4Historical Context
29Astrophobos
5Synopsis (Selection)
30Sunset
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6Life’s Mystery
31Laeta; a Lament
7Nathicana
32Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme
8Christmas Greetings
33The Conscript
9To Eugene B. Kuntz et al
34Despair
10To Laurie A. Sawyer
35Revelation
11To Sonia H. Greene
36The House
12To Rheinhart Kleiner
37The City
13To Felis (Frank Belknap Long’s Cat)
38To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany
14To Annie E. P. Gamwell
39The Nightmare Lake
15To Felis (Frank Belknap Long’s Cat)
40On Reading Lord Dunsany’s Book of Wonder
16Poemata Minora, Volume II
41Christmas
17On Receiving a Picture of Swans
42Sir Thomas Tryout
18Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea
43Waste Paper
19An American to Mother England
44Providence
20Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee
45The Cats
21The Rose of England
46Festival
22The Poe-et’s Nightmare
47Hallowe’en in a Suburb
23Fact and Fancy
48The Wood
24Pacifist War Song - 1917
49The Outpost
25A Garden
50The Ancient Track
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