I concur with the critic's view. Lovecraft's verbiage was not so byzantine as C.A. Smith's, nor could it reach Smith's heights of "verbal black magic"- nonetheless, he employed it on purpose and shouldn't be accused of excessive use of adjectives.
2011/12/14
H.P. Lovecraft: consummate prose stylist (1984)
A very interesting article from the out-of-print "Lovecraft studies" issue 9, published in 1984.
I concur with the critic's view. Lovecraft's verbiage was not so byzantine as C.A. Smith's, nor could it reach Smith's heights of "verbal black magic"- nonetheless, he employed it on purpose and shouldn't be accused of excessive use of adjectives.
I concur with the critic's view. Lovecraft's verbiage was not so byzantine as C.A. Smith's, nor could it reach Smith's heights of "verbal black magic"- nonetheless, he employed it on purpose and shouldn't be accused of excessive use of adjectives.
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