Charles Bryant's Poems

Writer Charles Bryant recently posted these recitations of a couple Lovecraftian poems to Youtube. The second poem is directly derived from H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale of strangeness and melancholy, "The Outsider." Bryant's version is an artful retelling of the tale in verse, ending with the same shocking conclusion and self-reflection Lovecraft exhibited in the original work. The first poem, a piece called "The Old Taoist," maintains a Lovecraftian taint, whether the author really intended it or not. Though H.P. Lovecraft was not entirely unique in the sort of mindset echoed by the poem, the vastness of the cosmos and the illusory dream-like aspects of this world definitely overlap with the themes of Cosmic Horror espoused by HPL.



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