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 35m
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 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 15, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
31Laeta; a Lament
2Introduction
32Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme
3Author Biography
33The Conscript
4Historical Context
34Despair
5Synopsis (Selection)
35Revelation
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6Life’s Mystery
36The House
7Nathicana
37The City
8Christmas Greetings
38To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany
9To Eugene B. Kuntz et al
39The Nightmare Lake
10To Laurie A. Sawyer
40On Reading Lord Dunsany’s Book of Wonder
11To Sonia H. Greene
41Christmas
12To Rheinhart Kleiner
42Sir Thomas Tryout
13To Felis (Frank Belknap Long’s Cat)
43Waste Paper
14To Annie E. P. Gamwell
44Providence
15To Felis (Frank Belknap Long’s Cat)
45The Cats
16Poemata Minora, Volume II
46Festival
17On Receiving a Picture of Swans
47Hallowe’en in a Suburb
18Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea
48The Wood
19An American to Mother England
49The Outpost
20Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee
50The Ancient Track
21The Rose of England
51The Messenger
22The Poe-et’s Nightmare
52Fungi from Yuggoth
23Fact and Fancy
53Little Sam Perkins
24Pacifist War Song - 1917
54Dead Passion’s Flame
25A Garden
55Arcadia
26The Peace Advocate
56In a Sequester’d Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk’d
27Ode for July Fourth, 1917
57To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures
28Nemesis
58Analysis
29Astrophobos
59Reflection
30Sunset
60Memorable Quotes
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