023-0087
| 023-0087 | |
|---|---|
| FROM Clark Ashton Smith | |
| TO George Sterling | |
| 4-Nov-1926 |
Abstract
Prompting Sterling to write an essay on the prevailing trend in thought and aesthetics; Smith's disagreement with humanists and his desire to find "a Hyperborea beyond Hyperborea" in poetry; on their fantastic poetry (citing Sterling's "A Wine of Wizardry", Dr. Ben Johnson, and Henry Seidel Canbys); Smith received the Overland Monthly and is looking forward to Donald Wandrei's article (The Emperor of Dreams), with a note on Wandrei's cosmic theory; Smith determines to write an article on the defense of imaginative poetry (citing Shakespeare's The Tempest, Keats, Poe, Baudelaire, Shelley, Coleridge, Whitman, and Freud).
Cited By
TBD
Included In
- Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith (unabridged)
- Shadow of the Unattained (unabridged)
| Preceded By 023-0087 | Letters of Clark Ashton Smith and George Sterling | Followed by 026-0371 |
|---|---|---|
| Preceded By 023-0086 | Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith | Followed By 023-0088 |
| Preceded By 023-0087 | Shadow of the Unattained | Followed By 026-0371 |
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