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''Collected Poems'' is an illustrated collection of poems by H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in
1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Co ...
by
Arkham House Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which ha ...
in an edition of 2,013 copies. The editor
August Derleth August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and th ...
, 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: # "Foreword", by August Derleth # "Providence" # "On a Grecian Colonnade in a Park" # "Old Christmas" # "New England Fallen" # "On a New England Village Seen by Moonlight" # "Astrophobos" # "Sunset" # "To Pan" # "A Summer Sunset and Evening" # "To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema" # "A Year Off" # "Sir Thomas Tryout" # "Phaeton" # "August" # "Death" # "To the American Flag" # "To a Youth" # "My Favorite Character" # "To Templeton and Mount Monadnock" # "The Poe-et's Nightmare" # "Lament for the Vanished Spider" # "Regnar Lodbrug's Epicedium" # "Little Sam Perkins" # "Drinking Song from the Tomb" # "The Ancient Track" # "The Eidolon" # "The Nightmare Lake" # "The Outpost" # "The Rutted Road" # "The Wood" # "The House" # "The City" # "Hallowe'en in a Suburb" # "Primavera" # "October" # "To a Dreamer" # "Despair" # "Nemesis" # "Yule Horror" # "To Mr. Finlay, Upon His Drawing for Mr. Bloch's Tale, 'The Faceless God'" # "Where Once Poe Walked" # "Christmas Greetings to Mrs. Phillips Gamwell—1925" # "Brick Row" # "The Messenger" # "To Klarkash-ton, Lord of Averoigne" # "Psychopompos" # "The Book" # "Pursuit" # "The Key" # "Recognition" # "Homecoming" # "The Lamp" # "Zaman's Hill" # "The Port" # "The Courtyard" # "The Pigeon-Flyers" # "The Well" # "The Howler" # "Hesperia" # "Star Winds" # "Antarkos" # "The Window" # "A Memory" # "The Gardens of Yin" # "The Bells" # "Night Gaunts" # "Nyarlathotep" # "Azathoth" # "Mirage" # "The Canal" # "St. Toad's" # "The Familiars" # "The Elder Pharos" # "Expectancy" # "Nostalgia" # "Background" # "The Dweller" # "Alienation" # "Harbour Whistles" # "Recapture" # "Evening Star" # "Continuity" The 36 poems from "The Book" through "Continuity" form a sequence of sonnets known as ''
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 gen ...
''.


Reprints

*New York: Ballantine, 1971(as ''Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems'').


References

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