{"id":46193,"date":"2021-03-20T05:30:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T02:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=46193"},"modified":"2021-03-20T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T02:30:28","slug":"despair-at-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/03\/20\/despair-at-the-price\/","title":{"rendered":"“Despair”… at the price"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up for sale at Abe, Lovecraft’s poem “Despair” (c. February 1919)<\/a> in his handwriting and signed.<\/p>\n

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The back is also interesting, with its address of “Appeal to Reason<\/em>, Girard, Kans.” In the war years Theodore Roosevelt termed the socialist scandal-sheet Appeal to Reason<\/em> a… “vituperative organ of propaganda, anarchy and bloodshed.” <\/p>\n

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But the Encyclopaedia of the Great Plains<\/em> notes that the newspaper … “lost much of its zeal and readership and wilted under the anti-Red reaction of the early twenties”. Evidently a ‘Book of the Month’ club was then helping the newspaper stay afloat. But one wonders who was so naive as to send the editor of The Conservative<\/em> (1915-1923) some ‘Book of the Month’ order-sheets for socialist tomes? Anyway, evidently Lovecraft merely considered these to be ‘free stationary’ and wrote on the backs.<\/p>\n

The poem appeared in Pine Cones<\/em><\/a> for June 1919, and relates to the severe mental illness of his mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Up for sale at Abe, Lovecraft’s poem “Despair” (c. February 1919) in his handwriting and signed. The back is also …<\/p>\n

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