''Shadows of Dreams'' is a collection of poems by
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American writer who wrote pulp magazine, pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sor ...
. It was published in
1989
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...
by
Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 850 copies. Most of the poems are original to this collection. Others originally appeared in the magazines ''The Poets' Scroll'', ''Fantasy Book'', ''Witchcraft & Sorcery'' and ''The Howard Collector''.
Contents
* Introduction, by
Glenn Lord
Glenn Lord (November 17, 1931 – December 31, 2011) was an American literary agent, editor, and publisher of the prose and poetry of fellow Texan Robert E. Howard (1906–1936), and the first and most important researcher and scholar of Howard's ...
* "Shadows of Dreams"
* "Flaming Marble"
* "A Weird Ballad"
* "A Warning to Orthodoxy"
* "Whispers"
* "A Riding Song"
* "Castaway"
* "Black Seas"
* "Silence Falls on Mecca’s Walls"
* "Keresa, Keresita"
* "Whispers on the Nightwinds"
* "Nights to Both of Us Known"
* "To Lyle Saxon"
* "Symbols"
* "A Stirring of Green Leves"
* "The Gladiator and the Lady"
* "A Song of the Anchor Chain"
* "The Path of the Strange Wanderers"
* "I Praise My Nativity"
* "Ballade"
* "Destiny"
* "Stay Not from Me"
* "The Last Words He Heard"
* "The Ecstacy of Desolation"
* "Musings"
* "Dreaming in Israel"
* "The Dust Dance"
* "A Challenge to Bast"
* "The Odyssey of Israel"
* "Romany Road"
* "Twilight on Stonehenge"
* "The Call of Pan"
* "Samson’s Broodings"
* "The Road to Babel"
* "The Dreams of Men"
* "A Far Country"
* "To a Nameless Woman"
* "Song of a Fugitive Bard"
* "A Poet’s Skull"
* "A Fable for Critics"
* "Love"
* "Song from an Ebony Heart"
* "Love’s Young Dream"
* "A Ballad of Beer"
* "John Brown"
* "Abe Lincoln"
* "Surrender"
References
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1989 poetry books
American poetry collections
Poetry by Robert E. Howard
Donald M. Grant, Publisher books
Fantasy poetry
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