Selected Poems

Description

This first omnibus collection of the poems of Clark Ashton Smith contains over five hundred sleections and reproduces entire volumes of verse long out of print as well as complete cycles of poems never before published in their entirety. From September 1944 to December 1949, in one way or another, Smith was invovled in the production of this book, revising old poems, creating new ones, and painstakingly preparing the manuscript himself during a time when he was having serious eye trouble. One of the most verbal and enthusiastic of Smith's early fans was H.P. Lovecraft who wrote to Smith (on a card postmarked February 9, 1923, Salem, Massachusetts): "Ebony and Crystal is titanic, cyclopean, marvelous!" He then went on to state: "The Hashish-Eater is the greatest imaginative poem in English literature.