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Letter to Clark Ashton Smith

From
H. P. Lovecraft
To
Clark Ashton Smith
Date
October 17, 1930

Extract

Howard, as you imply, needs to shed a great deal of his quasi-Iliad actionism before he can ever do justice to his occasionally striking sense of elder-world-life.

H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith — October 17, 1930; Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill (Hippocampus Press, 2017).

Date evidence

Source ReportedOctober 17, 1930Source Reported

Textual states & sources

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Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith · Volume Hippocampus Press, 2017 · 131Surviving State · Edited Transcription

Published in

Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith: 1922–1931 (Volume 1)Hippocampus PressJuly 14, 2020↗