Lovecraft and the Decadents
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I’ve just been reading H. P. Lovecraft’s 1922 short story The Hound. The notes to the story (it’s in The Call of Cthulhu and other Weird Stories, edited with notes by S. T. Joshi) are interesting. I hadn’t realised that Lovecraft was something of a devotee of the Symbolist and Decadent literature of the late 19th century. The Hound was inspired by Joris-Karl Huysmans’ classic 1884 novel Á Rebours, a book often described as the Bible of the Decadence. And Lovecraft’s friend and fellow-fantasist Clark Ashton Smith was apparently a great admirer of Baudelaire, and translated many of his poems.
I’m fascinated by following up links between various artists, writers and movements. If you follow the links far enough you can end up in some unexpected places.
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dfordoom)I’ve just been reading H. P. Lovecraft’s 1922 short story The Hound. The notes to the story (it’s in The Call of Cthulhu and other Weird Stories, edited with notes by S. T. Joshi) are interesting. I hadn’t realised that Lovecraft was something of a devotee of the Symbolist and Decadent literature of the late 19th century. The Hound was inspired by Joris-Karl Huysmans’ classic 1884 novel Á Rebours, a book often described as the Bible of the Decadence. And Lovecraft’s friend and fellow-fantasist Clark Ashton Smith was apparently a great admirer of Baudelaire, and translated many of his poems.
I’m fascinated by following up links between various artists, writers and movements. If you follow the links far enough you can end up in some unexpected places.
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