Odes and Sonnets

Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the big three of Weird Tales, (the famous pulp fiction magazine), was a romantic-style poet, contributor to the Cthulhu Mythos and a literary friend of H.P Lovecraft. As a poet, he was considered one of the last great West Coast Romantics. Published in 1918, prefaced by his mentor George Sterling and illustrated with Decadent movement-inspired embellishments by Florence Lundborg, this volume mainly republishes material from Clark's 1912 and 1922 poetry compilations. - Summary by Mary Kay