Excerpt from Robinson Jeffers, the Man and the ArtistIt is a sonnet at once modern in manner and highly individual in character, obviously the work of a stern and dissective soul, burdened with few illusions; or none. It is by our west ern genius, Robinson Jeffers.It is, a perilous business the attempt to ap praise genius. Genius, wrote Whistler, happens. No prince can command it. N o hovel is safe from it. The term, too, is grossly misused, and we have come to the practice of calling any person of uncommon talent a genius.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Robinson Jeffers, the Man and the Artist (Classic Reprint)

Literature & Fiction

George, Sterling

Poetry

Forgotten Books

Excerpt from Thirty-Five SonnetsAnd keels that dared the hurricane are cast Trophies of tides invincible that swing Around the islands where the Sirens sing, The magic of whose song is hers at last.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

Hippocampus Pr

In 1911 the poet George Sterling was the focus of a thriving literary community in California that included Jack London, Mary Austin, and the aged Ambrose Bierce. When he received a letter and some manuscript poems from a young writer in Auburn named Clark Ashton Smith, he immediately recognized that a literary prodigy of tremendous potential had come his way, and for the remaining fifteen years of his life he nurtured Smith’s poetic talent with care and sensitivity. This volume presents, for the first time, the complete surviving correspondence between these two poetic titans. In the decade and a half of their involvement, they exchanged many poems and prose works, visited each other on several occasions, and discussed the burning literary and social issues of the day—Modernist poetry, the founding of Weird Tales, the publication of their collections of cosmic and fantastic verse, and much else besides. Such figures as H. L. Mencken, H. P. Lovecraft, and Donald Wandrei are the subjects of their frequent letters, and we come to see why Smith took over the mantle of poetic greatness from Sterling, whose suicide in 1926 left Smith shocked and bereft. As an appendix, all of Smith’s essays on Sterling, and Sterling’s writings on Smith, are gathered.
This volume has been scrupulously annotated by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, leading authorities on Smith, Sterling, Lovecraft, Bierce, and other writers.

The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith

Essays & Correspondence

Hippocampus Press

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

Ode on the Opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, February, 1915

History

Americas

BiblioLife

A Book of Verses

Excerpt from Rosamund: A Dramatic PoemThe story of Rosamund may be found in Gibbons' "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." I have not departed materially from the tale as therein written. It has been used by Sir William D'avenant in his tragedy, "Albovine," first printed in 1629, and possibly by other Elizabethan dramatists.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Rosamund: A Dramatic Poem (Classic Reprint)

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George Sterling (1869 – 1926) was an American poet based in California who, during his lifetime, was celebrated in California as one of the greatest of American poets. A protégé of Ambrose Bierce, Sterling was himself mentor to the young Clark Ashton Smith. His literary and social circle included Nora May French, Jack London, and H. L. Mencken. Besides his eleven volumes of poetry and four verse dramas, Sterling wrote a critical work on Robinson Jeffers and a number of short stories. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has described Sterling as "a kind of leashed Swinburne" and pointed to the influence of Baudelaire and the Symbolist poets. This edition of his complete poetry and verse dramas includes hundreds of uncollected and unpublished poems, along with a comprehensive bibliography and commentary. Cumulatively, they establish Sterling as one of the leading poetic figures in the English-speaking world in the later 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Complete Poetry of George Sterling (3 VOLUMES)

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Robinson Jeffers, the Man and the Artist (Classic Reprint)

Thirty-Five Sonnets (Classic Reprint)

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith

Ode on the Opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, February, 1915

A Book of Verses

Ode on the Opening of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, February, 1915

Rosamund: A Dramatic Poem (Classic Reprint)

The Complete Poetry of George Sterling (3 VOLUMES)