Arthur Machen’s autobiography, now on Hathi and\/or Archive.org in full view at last…<\/p>\n
Far Off Things<\/a><\/em> (1922) \u2014 First volume of the autobiography. On Archive.org and also Hathi<\/a>.<\/p>\n Things Near and Far<\/a><\/em> (1923) \u2014 Second volume of the autobiography. Hathi only.<\/p>\n The London adventure; an essay in wandering<\/a><\/em> (1924) \u2014 Third and final volume of the autobiography. Also on Hathi.<\/p>\n Re: wandering, strange roads and early British psychogeography, see also his little travel book Strange Roads<\/a><\/em> (1924). A letter to Dwyer shows that Lovecraft also knew this, and considered it a bookend to the autobiographical trilogy.<\/p>\n Even if you don’t care for his fiction, the autobiographical\/walking work is well worth reading. So far as I’m aware, Lovecraft read all three volumes of the autobiography and it must have influenced how he practised walking. Lovecraft first discovered Machen\u2019s work in the summer of 1923 (S.T. Joshi, I Am Providence<\/em>, p.454).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arthur Machen’s autobiography, now on Hathi and\/or Archive.org in full view at last… Far Off Things (1922) \u2014 First volume …<\/p>\n