Collected Poems is an illustrated collection of poems by H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....

. It was released in 1963

1963 in literature

The year 1963 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill . The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.*Leslie Charteris publishes his final collection of stories...

 by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

 in an edition of 2,013 copies. The editor August Derleth

August Derleth

August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...

, in his foreword, stated that the book contains the best of Lovecraft's poetry, as well as the second-best and even his earlier work.

Contents

Collected Poems contains the following poems:

1. "Foreword", by August Derleth
2. "Providence"
3. "On a Grecian Colonnade in a Park"
4. "Old Christmas"
5. "New England Fallen"
6. "On a New England Village Seen by Moonlight"
7. "Astrophobos"
8. "Sunset"
9. "To Pan"
10. "A Summer Sunset and Evening"
11. "To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema"
12. "A Year Off"
13. "Sir Thomas Tryout"
14. "Phaeton"
15. "August"
16. "Death"
17. "To the American Flag"
18. "To a Youth"
19. "My Favorite Character"
20. "To Templeton and Mount Monadnock"
21. "The Poe-et's Nightmare"
22. "Lament for the Vanished Spider"
23. "Regnar Lodbrug's Epicedium"
24. "Little Sam Perkins"
25. "Drinking Song from the Tomb"
26. "The Ancient Track"
27. "The Eidolon"
28. "The Nightmare Lake"
29. "The Outpost"
30. "The Rutted Road"
31. "The Wood"
32. "The House"
33. "The City"
34. "Hallowe'en in a Suburb"
35. "Primavera"
36. "October"
37. "To a Dreamer"
38. "Despair"
39. "Nemesis"
40. "Yule Horror"
41. "To Mr. Finlay, Upon His Drawing for Mr. Bloch's Tale, 'The Faceless God'"
42. "Where Once Poe Walked"
43. "Christmas Greetings to Mrs. Phillips Gamwell—1925"
44. "Brick Row"
45. "The Messenger"
46. "To Klarkash-ton, Lord of Averoigne"
47. "Psychopompos"
48. "The Book"
49. "Pursuit"
50. "The Key"
51. "Recognition"
52. "Homecoming"
53. "The Lamp"
54. "Zaman's Hill"
55. "The Port"
56. "The Courtyard"
57. "The Pigeon-Flyers"
58. "The Well"
59. "The Howler"
60. "Hesperia"
61. "Star Winds"
62. "Antarkos"
63. "The Window"
64. "A Memory"
65. "The Gardens of Yin"
66. "The Bells"
67. "Night Gaunts"
68. "Nyarlathotep"
69. "Azathoth"
70. "Mirage"
71. "The Canal"
72. "St. Toad's"
73. "The Familiars"
74. "The Elder Pharos"
75. "Expectancy"
76. "Nostalgia"
77. "Background"
78. "The Dweller"
79. "Alienation"
80. "Harbour Whistles"
81. "Recapture"
82. "Evening Star"
83. "Continuity"

The 36 poems from "The Book" through "Continuity" form a sequence of sonnets known as Fungi from Yuggoth

Fungi from Yuggoth

Fungi from Yuggoth is a sequence of 36 sonnets by cosmic horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Most of the sonnets were written between 27 December 1929 – 4 January 1930; thereafter individual sonnets appeared in Weird Tales and other genre magazines...

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