С. Т. Джоши, Стивен Дж. Мариконда «Dreams of Fear: Poetry of Terror and the Supernatural»

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

I. The Ancient World

Homer (c. 750 B.C.E.)

From the Odyssey

Euripides (485?–406 B.C.E.) 22

From Medea

Catullus (84?–54 B.C.E.)

Attis

Horace (65–8 B.C.E.)

Epode 5

II. From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

From Inferno

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

From Dr. Faustus

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

From Hamlet

From Macbeth

John Donne (1572–1631)

The Apparition

John Milton (1608–1674)

From Paradise Lost

John Gay (1685–1732)

A True Story of an Apparition

David Mallet (1705?–1765)

William and Margaret

William Collins (1721–1759)

Ode to Fear

III. The Gothics and Romantics

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

The Erl-King

The Bride of Corinth

The Dance of Death

Mary Robinson (1757–1800)

The Haunted Beach

William Blake (1757–1827)

Fair Elenor

Robert Burns (1759–1796)

Tam o’ Shanter

Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805)

A Funeral Fantasie

Nathan Drake (1766–1836)

Ode to Superstition

James Hogg (1770–1835)

The Witch of the Gray Thorn

Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)

William and Helen

The Wild Huntsman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan

Robert Southey (1774–1843)

To Horror

Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775–1818)

Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogene

Thomas Moore (1779–1852)

The Lake of the Dismal Swamp

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824)

Darkness

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

Sister Rosa: A Ballad

John Clare (1793–1864)

The Nightmare

John Keats (1795–1821)

La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad

Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)

The Lorelei

Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

The Demon-Ship

IV. The Later Nineteenth Century

Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

The Vanished City

Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)

The Ghosts’ Moonshine

The Boding Dreams

Doomsday

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1822)

Haunted Houses

The Haunted Chamber

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

The City in the Sea

The Haunted Palace

The Conqueror Worm

Dream-Land

Ulalume

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)

The Kraken

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894)

The Broomstick Train; or, The Return of the Witches

Robert Browning (1812–1889)

Chillde Roland to the Dark Tower Came

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

The Ghost-Seer

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

The Phantom

The Irremediable

William Allingham (1824–1889)

A Dream

George MacDonald (1824–1905)

The Homeless Ghost

George Meredith (1828–1909)

Phantasy

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907)

Eidolons

The Lorelei

Apparitions

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)

The Witch-Mother

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

The Dead Man Walking

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?)

A Vision of Doom

Julian Hawthorne (1846–1934)

Were-Wolf

W. E. Henley (1849–1903)

[Untitled]

Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893)

Horror

Edwin Markham (1852–1940)

Wail of the Wandering Dead

The Wharf of Dreams

Emile Verhaeren (1855–1916)

The Miller

A. E. Housman (1859–1936)

Hell Gate

Katharine Tynan (1861–1931)

The Witch

Madison Cawein (1865–1914)

The Forest of Shadows

The Wood Water

The Night-Wind

Hallowmas

W. B. Yeats (1865–1939)

The Phantom Ship

Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1918)

The Skeleton in the Cupboard

The Fetch

AE (George William Russell) (1867–1935)

A Vision of Beauty

V. The Twentieth Century

George Sterling (1869–1926)

A Dream of Fear

A Wine of Wizardry

The Thirst of Satan

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

The Dead Village

The Dark House

Christopher Brennan (1870–1932)

[Untitled]

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)

The Haunted Oak

Walter de la Mare (1873–1956)

Fear

The Listeners

Drugged

Robert W. Service (1874–1958)

The Cremation of Sam McGee

Robert Frost (1874–1963)

Ghost House

The Demiurge’s Laugh

William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918)

Storm

Park Barnitz (1878–1901)

Mad Sonnet

Mankind

Edward Thomas (1878–1917)

Out in the Dark

Herman George Scheffauer (1878–1927)

Phantasmagoria

Lilith of Eld

The Shadow o’er the City

Lord Dunsany (1878–1957)

Songs from an Evil Wood

The Watchers

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962)

The Whisperers

The Lodging House

John Masefield (1878–1967)

The Haunted

John G. Neihardt (1881–1973)

The Voice of Nemesis

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)

Haunted

Goblin Revel

Vincent Starrett (1886–1974)

Villon Strolls at Midnight

Georg Heym (1887–1912)

The Demons of the Cities

Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

Dead Men’s Love

Samuel Loveman (1887–1976)

Ship of Dreams

Conrad Aiken (1889–1973)

La Belle Morte

H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937)

Despair

To a Dreamere

The Wood

From Fungi from Yuggoth

Harold Vinal (1891–1965)

Apparition

Ghostly Reaper

Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961)

Ode to the Abyss

The Eldritch Dark

The Medusa of Despair

The Tears of Lilith

A Vision of Lucifer

Robert Graves (1895–1985)

The Haunted House

Frank Belknap Long (1901–1994)

The Goblin Tower

The Abominable Snow Men

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936)

Dead Man’s Hate

Recompense

Donald Wandrei (1908–1987)

Nightmare

From Sonnets of the Midnight Hours

Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990)

The Scythe of Dreams

Stanley McNail (1918–1995)

The House on Maple Hill

Donald Sidney-Fryer (b. 1930)

Midnight Visitant

Richard L. Tierney (b. 1936)

The Evil House

To the Hydrogen Bomb

Bruce Boston (b. 1943)

The Nightmare Collector

Ghost Blood

Brett Rutherford (b. 1947)

Fête

G. Sutton Breiding (b. 1950)

The Worm of Midnight

Black Leather Vampyre

W. H. Pugmire (b. 1951)

The Outsider’s Song

Gary William Crawford (b. 1953)

The Formicary

Keith Allen Daniels (1956–2001)

Stonehenge

Leigh Blackmore (b. 1959)

Terror Australis

Ann K. Schwader (b. 1960)

The Coming of Chaos

Index of Poets

Acknowledgments