i mean, not that lovecraft *isn't* kitschy (and very racist) americana

@aparrish very true. It was the man against the horror of vastness that drew me into reading him when I was younger. Just as with Lovecraft. These days there are a lot of modern writers who did lovecraft better than he did without the racism and I like that a lot too.

eg https://genius.com/Robert-frost-desert-places-annotated

@aparrish "A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
do you suppose there are really any such things as time and magnitude?
Do you fancy there are such things as form or matter?"

@aparrish He also shares the trait of a tiny section of his work being inverted then taken as the whole (or even divorced from him). "road less travelled" and "good fences make good neighbours" are both plush #Cthulhu quotes.

Admittedly most poets suffer from badly used quote syndrome.

@aparrish
Not sure about Frost but Lovecraft & the general Weird Fiction community was absolutely heavily influenced by the symbolist poetic tradition (at least from my understanding of histories of the genre).

There are some passages in Gary Lachman's Crowley biography that quoted or summarized the symbolist poetry Crowley's peers were writing, & which smack of Lovecraft & Blackwood.