The Last Oblivion:
Best Fantastic Poems of Clark Ashton Smith

The Last Oblivion
Edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz.
September 2002
ISBN 0967321557
Paperback
$15.00

 

Clark Ashton Smith could well be considered one of the great poets of the twentieth century, and much of his verse explores the realms of fantasy, terror, wonder, and the supernatural. In this volume -- the first major selection of Smith's poetry in more than thirty years -- editors S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz have presented an extensive array of poetic work that fully reveals Smith's exotic language, imaginative range, and metrical precision.

Including work from as early as the precocious Star-Treader and Other Poems (1912) and as late as the posthumously published The Hill of Dionysus (1962), The Last Oblivion features such celebrated works as "Nero," "Ode to the Abyss," and Smith's exquisite elegies to his mentor George Sterling and to his colleague in fantasy, H. P. Lovecraft. Poems on Zothique, Averoigne, and Atlantis--realms in which many of his prose tales are set--are also featured.

More than two dozen unpublished or uncollected poems, never previously included in any of Smith's books, make The Last Oblivion a must for Smith devotees. As an aid to readers, an exhaustive glossay of unusual words and names used in Smith's poetry is provided.

CONTENTS

Introduction
The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil

I. The Star-Treader

II. Medusa and Other Horrors

III. The Eldritch Dark

IV. Said the Dreamer

V. The Refuge of Beauty

VI. To the Darkness

VII. The Sorcerer Departs

Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines

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