"Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose" by Clark Ashton Smith is a collection of writings that explores the depths of imagination, skillfully using language to touch on beauty, mystery, love, and life's big questions. The compilation features both individual poems and prose pieces filled with poetic language, creating strong images and emotional connections, and beginning a voyage into the author's strange and amazing viewpoints. Smith's collection opens with diverse poems capturing the soul of beauty found in nature, love, and the passing nature of life, with opening works that weave together striking scenic descriptions with thoughts about time and yearning. Smith's language creates a dreamlike sense, pulling readers into realms populated with trees, faraway stars, and echoes of old poets, immediately building an atmosphere encouraging discovery and thought on the hidden meanings inside the images and themes.
Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose
By Clark Ashton Smith
Journey through vivid landscapes of longing and beauty, encountering echoes of ancient voices and the mysteries of existence.
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About the AuthorClark Ashton Smith was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures".
Clark Ashton Smith was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures".
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