George Sterling (1869–1926)
Autor(a) de The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
About the Author
Image credit: Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1914 (Arnold Genthe Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0409)
Obras de George Sterling
The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith (2005) 21 cópias
Avatars of Wizardry: Poetry Inspired by George Sterling's "A Wine of Wizardry" and Clark Ashton Smith's "The… (2012) 6 cópias
Rosamund : a dramatic poem 3 cópias
A Day in the Hills 2 cópias
The Evanescent City 2 cópias
Beyond the breakers, and other poems 2 cópias
Yosemite : an ode 1 exemplar(es)
The caged eagle, and other poems 1 exemplar(es)
Sails and mirage, and other poems 1 exemplar(es)
After sunset 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Contribuinte — 438 cópias
The Reviewer, Volume I, Numbers 1-12 (April-August 1921) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
The Reviewer, Volume II, Numbers 1-6 (October 1921-March 1922) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1869-12-01
- Data de falecimento
- 1926-11-17
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Sag Harbor, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Ocupação
- poet
- Relacionamentos
- London, Jack (friend)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 30
- Also by
- 8
- Membros
- 146
- Popularidade
- #141,736
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 15
- Favorito
- 4
The House of Orchids, and Other Poems, published 1911, was Sterling’s third collection. It contains forty-six poems, written in a late romantic style, tinged with gothic and fantasy elements. The diction is self-consciously poetic; why say “reward” if there’s an archaic synonym like “guerdon” to use in its place?
Most are set at dawn or dusk, some in the night; I recall one set at mid-day. Stars and flowers abound, and fellow humans are scarce. The sea is a recurring image—fitting for Sterling’s role in a budding artist’s colony at Carmel.
His parents had destined him for the priesthood, but he dropped out. A vestige of this is reflected in “At the Grave of Serra.” For the most part, Sterling’s musings centered on a vaguer transcendence; their muddled inchoate intimations me cold. To my taste, the more concrete the poem, the better I liked it. “Ephemeral,” “Remorse,” and “Moonlight in the Pines” are some of those.
A literary critic in 1940 characterized Sterling as “a belated romantic, gained some prominence in a period when American poetry was at an ebb. The tide rose after 1912; Sterling failed to develop and was engulfed.” On the evidence of this collection, I have no reason to quibble with this assessment.… (mais)