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“Metre, therefore, is no such false artifice as most exponents of radicalism would have us believe, but is instead a natural and inevitable embellishment to poesy.”

Defending poetic metre as an organic extension of humanity’s rhythmic instinct · Essay, Metrical Regularity

About Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

20 August 1890–15 March 1937

In the shadowed streets of Providence, Rhode Island, where colonial spires pierced the New England sky like fingers reaching toward indifferent stars, Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890. This unassuming city, with its cobblestone lanes and whispering ghosts of history, would become both cradle and…

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