On First Looking into Lovecraft's Homer
March 28, 2011 9:32 AM Subscribe
A Cyclops' cave the wanderers brave
And find much milk & cheese
But as they eat, foul death they meet
For them doth Cyclops seize.
From The Young Folks' Ulysses [PDF], by H. Lovecraft, poet, aged seven. One of the "freely available editions of obscure, outlandish and otherwise outré works of semi-fine literature" from the electric publishing wing of kobek.com.
And find much milk & cheese
But as they eat, foul death they meet
For them doth Cyclops seize.
From The Young Folks' Ulysses [PDF], by H. Lovecraft, poet, aged seven. One of the "freely available editions of obscure, outlandish and otherwise outré works of semi-fine literature" from the electric publishing wing of kobek.com.
His swineheard first then his old nurse
Do recognise him well
Lovecraft was once accused of being a bad poet. He responded that the critic had clearly not read his work, or he would call Lovecraft no kind of poet at all. Good to see Howard got an early start on that....
(To be fair, the drinking song in "The Tomb" is pretty rockin' ("Better under the table than under the ground!") and some of his short Christmas poems are rather sweet.
Further into the site, The Oldest History of the World Discovered by Occult Science in Detroit, Michigan by Benny Evangelist is quite the thing.
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:17 AM on March 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Do recognise him well
Lovecraft was once accused of being a bad poet. He responded that the critic had clearly not read his work, or he would call Lovecraft no kind of poet at all. Good to see Howard got an early start on that....
(To be fair, the drinking song in "The Tomb" is pretty rockin' ("Better under the table than under the ground!") and some of his short Christmas poems are rather sweet.
Further into the site, The Oldest History of the World Discovered by Occult Science in Detroit, Michigan by Benny Evangelist is quite the thing.
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:17 AM on March 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
This is pretty good for a 7 year old.
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 11:27 AM on March 28, 2011
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 11:27 AM on March 28, 2011
HE WAS RACIST YOU KNOW
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 1:49 PM on March 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 1:49 PM on March 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
(There, got that out of the way for this post.)
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 1:50 PM on March 28, 2011
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 1:50 PM on March 28, 2011
Good work killing the thread, there.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:41 AM on March 29, 2011
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:41 AM on March 29, 2011
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