023-0043
023-0043
FROM Clark Ashton Smith
TO George Sterling
29-Mar-1920

Abstract

Enclosing a draft of "The Hashish-Eater" (with a comment from Samuel Loveman); condolences on Sterling's mother's death and Sterling's own ill health, as well as praise for his latest poetic output, particularly Lilith: a Dramatic Poem and Rosamund: a Dramatic Poem; on Sterling declining membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters (with reference to H. L. Mencken); Samuel Loveman planning to publish a magazine in Cleveland (The Saturnian), and Smith's desire not to be associated with any school, even the Decadents; on "The Ghoul and the Seraph" and other planned poems ("Asmodeus and the Gargoyles", "The Colloquy of Christ and Belial," "The Girl From Venus") with reference to Felicien Rops, Charles Meryon, and François Villon; on the poetic possibilities of hashish, quoting Arthur Symons' "Hashish" and mentioning Thomas Bailey Aldrich and Baudelaire. Enclosed: "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil."

Note: A line from this letter "The first effects of hashish, like those of opium, are often disappointing to the Occidental" was re-used as the first sentence of Smith's uncompleted "In a Hashish-Dream."

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Preceded By 026-0217 Letters of Clark Ashton Smith and George Sterling Followed by 026-0219
Preceded By 023-0042 Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith Followed By 023-0044
Preceded By 026-0217 Shadow of the Unattained Followed By 026-0219
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