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arthurbdd's review against another edition
1.0
Let's stop pretending the Emperor is clothed: Lovecraft, whatever his qualities as an author of prose stories may be, was by and large a terrible poet. It is an outright tragedy that he wasted so much of his working life attempting to make a career in poetry, when so much of what his produced was disposable doggerel, cast in clunky heroic couplets due to his adamant clinging to outmoded theories of literary propriety.
Eventually, he would loosen up a little - the Fungi From Yuggoth sonnets are not anything approaching good, but they at least seem to have a touch more substance than most of this dreck. Nonetheless, Lovecraft never approaches the standards of, say, Clark Ashton Smith - his peer, and a far better supernatural poet than Lovecraft ever was.
The Ancient Track attempts to collect all of Lovecraft's poetry - including horrible racist jokes, and meaningless little throwaway poems written as greetings for friends. In doing so, it burdens the future. This poetry is bad, and those responsible for its preservation should feel bad.
Eventually, he would loosen up a little - the Fungi From Yuggoth sonnets are not anything approaching good, but they at least seem to have a touch more substance than most of this dreck. Nonetheless, Lovecraft never approaches the standards of, say, Clark Ashton Smith - his peer, and a far better supernatural poet than Lovecraft ever was.
The Ancient Track attempts to collect all of Lovecraft's poetry - including horrible racist jokes, and meaningless little throwaway poems written as greetings for friends. In doing so, it burdens the future. This poetry is bad, and those responsible for its preservation should feel bad.
thebonsaibook's review against another edition
4.0
It's an enjoyable poetry collection.
We always hear about HP lovecraft as the ocean goth author who created sea monsters and demonic books yet this poetry collection feels a lot more personal, intimate and realistic.
For poetry enthusiasts it's definitely worth it.
We always hear about HP lovecraft as the ocean goth author who created sea monsters and demonic books yet this poetry collection feels a lot more personal, intimate and realistic.
For poetry enthusiasts it's definitely worth it.
chickenbiscuit's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
ronweston's review against another edition
3.0
This compilation of Lovecraft's poetry contains 74 poems which are considered to be out of copyright, though some of them were first printed in 1977. The rating on this eBook is greatly influenced by the presentation of the poems. The poems are not structured as written but only left justified, with errors in some of them. The layout of the eBook is an alphabetic stream of the poems, only separated by a bolded title with no spacing between each poem. That makes for very tiresome reading. I wonder at some titles of the poems since those poems in S.T. Joshi's collections bear no titles. The one page introduction is fairly worthless and at times reads as if computer generated. Anyone looking to sample Lovecraft's poetry should look elsewhere; there are much better eBooks available than this one.
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