000-0346
000-0346
FROM H. P. Lovecraft
TO Elizabeth Toldridge
8-Mar-1929

Abstract

On Toldridge's poetry (and intellectual common property), on masters of literature, on finding individual style, brief notes on the style of writers like Walter Pater, Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, and Baudelaire; on finding a publisher for poetry; on the air of realism in Lovecraft's fiction (and the influence of Dunsany and Machen), on druids (seguing into mention of the witch-cult hypothesis and "little people") and Toldridge's response to the material on Long, Loveman, and Clark Ashton SMith; more notes on Toldridge's poetry, simplicity in poetry, on ancestral connections, on The House of the Isles again and various Scottish connections, on "The Fortunes of a Family" (leading into a brief discussion of old Providence and Newport and the name Gervas), on Toldridge's cuttings (with mention of his meeting Lord Dunsany in 1919).

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Preceded By 000-0344 Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Elizabeth Toldridge Followed By 000-0347
Preceded By 000-0344 Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge & Anne Tillery Renshaw Followed By 000-0347
Preceded By 000-0345 Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft Followed By 000-0347
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