A poetry collection featuring the best lyrical works from American writer Robert E. Howard. This poetry collection features the best of Robert E. Howard’s work. The American writer is known for his marvellous pulp fiction and is often referred to as the father of the sword and sorcery genre. His poetry, though lesser known than his fiction, reflects the heavy influence that the American frontier had on his life and writing. His traditional lyrical style is coupled with themes of existentialism and often violence, reflecting the writer’s lifelong struggle with his mental health.
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Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror." He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. —Wikipedia Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
