The StarTreader and Other Poems, Clark Ashton Smith
The StarTreader and Other Poems, Clark Ashton Smith
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The Star-Treader and Other Poems

Author: Clark Ashton Smith

Narrator: Matthew Schmitz

Unabridged: 1 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/18/2023


Synopsis

Clark Ashton Smith was a poet, sculptor, painter, and author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction short stories. It is for these stories and his literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft, from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937, that he is mainly remembered today. With Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, also a friend and correspondent, Smith remains one of the most famous contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales. This early volume of Clark Ashton Smith's poetry was published when he was only 19-years-old.

Reviews

Here Clark Ashton Smith is digging on the lode of the Romantic poets and tends to write in such celestial abstractions that any modern reader of poetry may find it difficult to stay inquisitive of the text. Nowadays, our cosmopolitan sensibilities demand concrete details with which to correlate to s......more

Goodreads review by j

Smith's apocalyptic pastorals evoke cosmic immensity just as strongly as they do the crushing insignificance of one mopey little man writing weird poetry.......more

Goodreads review by Bryn

This is a collection of dark fantasy, weird, horror based, and romantic poems of Clark Ashton Smith. As a member of the Weird Tales Triumverate with H.P. Lovecraft, I felt compelled to read this. I was also inertested as a poet myself. Since my 'horror' based poetry is minimal compared to other type......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

Considering that Clark Ashton Smith was but nineteen years old when this collection was first published in 1912, it's an astonishingly confident and mature artistic statement. While there are some clunkers in these pages, there are also some truly powerful and memorable verses, such as "Nero", "Retr......more