- Hardcover
- Publisher: Stanza Press; unsigned poetry collection edition (2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1848630796
- ASIN: B003DQQD2W
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,677,094 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This review is from: The Singer in the Mist & Others [Hardcover] (Hardcover)
This is a beautiful book, suberbly printed and full of some of REH's best poetry. Like all of REH's writing I recommend buying this supberb volume. And well done to PS publishing for a genuinely stunning looking book
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"I opened a volume dark and rare...",
By Murray "Murray Ewing" (West Sussex, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Singer in the Mist & Others [Hardcover] (Hardcover)
The Singer in the Mist & Others collects all the poetry by Robert E Howard that was published in Weird Tales magazine, 37 poems in all. (There are companion Stanza Press volumes for H P Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.) I hadn't read any of Howard's poetry before, so I can't say how representative of his verse the poems in this volume are (obviously, coming from the pages of Weird Tales, you can expect them to be skewed in a certain direction), but there are some strong ones on show, here. In Stephen Jones's introduction, Howard is quoted as saying that he knew nothing about the "mechanics of poetry": "I write the stuff by ear, so to speak, and my musical ear is very full of flaws." But it is the word-music that is one of Howard's strong points. His lines have a lyrical flow, and often a ballad-like ease of rhythm, that makes them a pleasure to read. That ballad feel is also present in the fact that some of the poems tell a story -- the long-lined "Ride of Falume", for instance, and "The King and the Oak", the only poem in this volume to feature one of Howard's series characters, in this case Kull. Generally, there's a lot of dark imagery, which will come as no surprise to anyone who has read Howard's tales of sword and sorcery, but it comes across undiluted in the poetry, which is brim-full of madness, violence, desolation, melancholy and death. "Which Will Scarcely Be Understood" and "Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die" are particularly potent examples of this type of poem, and are, in my opinion, the strongest poetry in this book -- affecting stuff indeed. Elsewhere, we have much evidence of Howard's love of history: "Ships" depicts a "far, lone island in the dim, red west" around whose coasts vessels from many eras of history are to be found -- an image, perhaps, of Howard's own imagination. Meanwhile, "Shadows on the Road", the most haunting of the story-poems, contrasts some stay-at-home Irishmen's expectations of the glories of Imperial Rome with one of their number who has actually been there, only to have found it sacked and in the hands of barbarians. Stanza Press have produced a beautiful-looking volume, here, something that certainly enhances the readability of the poetry, and makes this a lovely book to own.
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