Conan the Barbarian #10

20th Century Fantasy Poetry 0

Conan the Barbarian #10 - Beware the Wrath of Anu! by gc8 on August 04, 2013

'The King and the Oak' was one of R.E. Howard's numerous fantasy poemsWhen you mention fantasy poetry, most people think of something written in the 19th Century (if they can think of any fantasy poems at all!); poems like Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner', Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven', or Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky'.But almost totally ignored is the poetry of 20th Century pulp writers and fantasists. Rarely does Tolkien's 'lays' of Beleriand, H.P. Lovecraft's 'Despair', or anything b...