Donald Sidney-Fryer (b. 1934) has, for the better part of six decades, been a leading poet, critic, bibliographer, and fiction writer in the realms of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. His interests are prodigally vast, and every literary contribution he has made since his first publication in 1962 is vital and illuminating.
In this volume of essays and miscellany, we are treated to some of Sidney-Fryer’s most recent thoughts on a wide array of subjects. Whether it be the life and work of Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and Lin Carter, or the poetry of the such contemporary versifiers as G. Sutton Breiding and Frank Coffman, Sidney-Fryer always offers penetrating insight. And he writes charmingly about some of the engaging events of his own long and eventful life.
In the section “Random Lines: Poems in Verse and Prose,” Sidney-Fryer indites lyrics of impeccable beauty and metrical precision. And we are treated to a sheaf of poems written during his adolescence—poems that supply abundant hints of the towering literary figure he would later become.
Donald Sidney-Fryer, in his eighth decade of life, remains as vibrant and dynamic a writer as when he made his debut to the literary public so many years ago.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Random Notes O Brave New Sphere! Letter to the Editor, Crypt of Cthulhu Bard of the Hyborian Age The Emperor of Dreams Comes into His Own Dreams and Damnations: A Review The Shadow of the Unattained A Poetic Original A Guidebook for Witches and Warlocks House-Guarding for Friends A Mistress of Major Spells Cosmic Troubadours The Spenser Experiment Gaspard de la Nuit and the Poem in Prose Continuity Via Songs and Sonnets Atlantean Brave World Old and New: The Atlantis Theme in the Poetry and Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith Klarkash-Ton and “Greek” A Report from Clark Ashton Smith Country A Roundup of Recent Reviews Interviews with Donald Sidney-Fryer For Lin Carter
Random Lines To S. T. Joshi To an Alchemist of Dreams Encomium Supremely Difficult Enquiry Whim-Wham, Whimsy, Whim On Visiting Edward Gorey’s House “A Talismanic Incantation” Wanderlust, Wonderlust, Wonderlost A Lone Complaint Random Lines The Bird of Fire Nightmare Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out High Altitude Aislantis Apples from Eden A Modest Prince upon a Plinth That Modest Prince upon His Plinth An Immodest Artist Before His Easel Sadko Sea Mood Barren Harvest Haphazard Rimes Queen Elizabeth II: 2018 The Garden Bench Delphinidae-an Definition Inconsequentiality Consequentiality An Autumn Promenade The Seasons with Their Charms Happenstance A Mistress of Minor Spells Heorte and Heorth Manhattan Towers The Glass Elevator Hallowed Evening Autumn the Painter Transience The Little Camel-Beast Who Could Notes Postscriptum Ambivalence Sometimes Lofty Towers Helsingor, or Elsinore Winter Solstice Eyepiece Cultus Poeticus Finis Coronat Opus Appendix: Juvenilia Winter in Vermont My Little Forest The Tulip The Ruby-Throated Hummingbird My Kitten Autumn in New England Change Winter Fun Anniversary It’s Spring
This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 22 May, 2021.
