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Kant,
Immanuel | Keller,
David H | Kellogg, Elijah, Jr. | Khayyam,
Omar | Kipling,
Rudyard | Kline,
Otis Adelbert | Knibbs,
H.H. | Kramer,
Edgar Daniel | Kubin,
Alfred
(1724-1804)
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. 20 February 1928 [SL 1 #10],
following a list of men who "looked beyond the human" to the cosmic:
"Kant looked beyond and saw nothing."
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(1880-1966)
REH to August W. Derleth, ca. December 1933: "Frankly, it
seems to me that the average pseudo-scientific tale (always excepting the really
fine work of such men as Wandrei, Williamson, Keller and a few others) is pretty
poor stuff..."
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(1813-1901)
“Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua.”
A brief quotation from this declamation
is used as a heading for Howard’s poem, “A Son of Spartacus.”
(See "Fitzgerald, Edward")
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(1865-1936)
Post Oaks and Sand Roughs, p. 74: "Steve [Costigan =
REH] tried rhymes. He wrote a great
deal of jingling, jangling verse on the order of Robert W. Service, for whom he
entertained a regard second only to Rudyard Kipling. Clive [Hilton = Tevis Clyde Smith] considered Service the
greatest poet of all time, but Steve leaned toward Kipling, because, as he said,
Service wrote a few rotten poems, but Kipling never did."
Mentioned
in Howard's untitled parody ("'Hatrack!' a voice came to me
dimly…"), included in REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929, as
"Rudyard Dribbling."
REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1929 [SL 1 #25]: "Writing is a lot like
architecture. The whole structure has to suit – each piece has to be in
place. A master of the game, like
Kipling, for instance,...always places the pieces right."
REH
to The Eyrie, November 1929: "[E. Hoffmann] Price has captured the true
spirit of the East in his tales, just as Kipling did."
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1930 [SL 1 #49]: "...Kipling, Mundy, a
few others, they can write convincingly of Oriental mysticism; not many others
that I have read after."
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932: Kipling is listed among those Howard
refers to as "my favorite writers," as well as among a number of poets
Howard likes. The same source has:
"Of all these foreigners, I prefer Kipling's works.
He's made remarks about America that made me want to break his back, but
I've got much solid enjoyment out of his prose and verse.
He has guts at least, which so many modern writers utterly lack."
REH to Emil Petaja July 23, 1935: "Glad you like the bits
of verse I sometimes use for chapter headings. They are mine,
except where due credit is given to the author—in
the past I have used quotations from Chesterton, Kipling, Poe,
Swinburne, and possibly others which I do not at present recall."
In
One Who Walked Alone, p. 119, Mrs. Ellis relates an incident in
which Howard quoted Kipling and she began reciting entire poems to him.
"Skull-Face" (Weird Tales, October, November,
December 1929 [3 part serial]): Chapter 5 heading is l. 62 of this poem.
One
Who Walked Alone, p. 119, Howard is said to have quoted the last two
lines of the opening stanza.
One Who Walked Alone, p. 119, Howard is said to have quoted
the line 'A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke.'"
REH to Harold Preece, ca. October/November 1930: "I don't
believe I've ever read that tale of Kipling's, 'The Finest Story in the
World'..."
"Lord
of Samarcand" (Oriental Stories, Spring 1932): Chapter 5 heading is
ll. 1-4 of this poem, apparently misquoted ("Inclusive Edition")
London & New York: Macmillan, 1894. 30782; PQ3; GL; TDB.
Included on a listing, headed "Library," found among Howard's
papers. See Appendix Two.
Originally published in two volumes; both Howard's own listing and the
accessions list indicate only one volume, probably a combined edition.
for Scouts and Guides.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1923. 30804;
PQ3; GL; TDB.
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, 22 June 1923: "Did you ever read
'The Man That Came Back' by Kipling? In
it a phrase is used, 'Rung Ho! Hira Singh!' which is the titles of two of Talbot
Mundy's books."
There
is no such title among Kipling's works. The
phrase appears in the story, "The Man Who Was" (about a British
soldier who returns to his regiment, in India, many years after being captured
by the Russians in the Crimea).
New
York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928. 30590;
PQ3; GL; TDB.
Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co., 1888. 30692; PQ3; GL; TDB.
A listing, headed "Library," found among Howard's papers
includes "The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories." See Appendix
Two.
REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, 7 July 1923, in a listing of parodic book titles is
"'The Phantom Hawkshaw,' by Rudyard Kipling."
Contents:
"The Phantom 'Rickshaw" | "My Own True Ghost Story" |
"The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes" | "The Man Who Would Be
King"
“A Pict Song.”
The similarity of Howard’s “The Song
of a Mad Minstrel” to this poem has frequently been noted.
Inclusive Edition; 1885-1918. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925.
30596; PQ3 (as "Kipling (verse inclusive ed.)"); GL; TDB.
"Sea
Curse" (Weird Tales, May 1928): Story heading is ll. 41-44 of
this poem.
REH to Clark Ashton Smith, ca. March 1934 [SL 2 #73]: "I
remember in one of Kipling's yarns somebody haunted somebody else with a
'sending' of cats."
“El Borak”: “‘He is a
Spaniard and his name is’ (here it seemed to me the Arab hesitated and his eye
wandered from me) ‘Diego Valdez,’ he said. ¶ ‘Any relation to the originaI?’ I
asked innocently. ¶ ‘Original?’ He darted a quick glance at me. ¶ ‘And in the
face of Fortune and last in mazed disdain / I made Diego Valdez, High Admiral
of Spain.’ ¶ I quoted. In that brief instant of hesitation before the name it
had seemed to me that his wandering glance had rested on a book on the table
and that book bore the name of ‘Kipling’ on its vellum binding.” The quoted
lines are 61-64 of the poem.
Tevis Clyde Smith, "Report on a Writing Man": "All
the time, Bob kept repeating Kipling: 'Down to Gehenna, or up to the throne, he
travels the fastest who travels alone,'..."
Lines 5-6 of the first stanza of this poem.
"The
Road of Azrael" (submitted to Clayton Publications ca. March 1932):
Story heading is ll. 61-64 of this poem, apparently misquoted ("Inclusive
Edition")
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(1891-1946)
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1930 [SL 1 #49]: [After saying
he found the first issue of Oriental Stories "slightly
disappointing"] "However, with such writers as Hoffmann Price, Owen
and Kline, I look for better things."
REH
to The Eyrie, March 1932: "...I consider the current magazine [i.e.,
January] uniformly fine, of an excellence surprizing considering the fact that
neither Lovecraft, Quinn, Hamilton, Whitehead, Kline nor Price was
represented."
Howard
retained Kline as his agent from the spring of 1933 through his death in June
1936, and Kline continued as the agent for REH's work until his own death.
Weird Tales, February 1930.
REH to The Eyrie, April 1930: "Thirsty Blades is
fine...It moves like a cavalry charge, with an incessant clashing of steel that
stirs the blood. Gigantic shadows
from the outer gulfs fall across the actors of the drama, yet the sense of
realism is skilfully retained."
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(1874-1945)
REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, 7 July 1923, in a listing of parodic
book titles is "'Partners of Dance,' by H.H. Knibbs" [Partners of
Chance, 1921].
REH
to Tevis Clyde Smith, 6 August 1926: "I've ordered a couple of H.H.
Knibbs' books of poems... I like Knibbs, what little I've read of him."
REH
to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1932: Knibbs is listed among a number of
poets Howard likes.
Knibbs'
poems occasionally appeared in Adventure magazine.
Howard's library included one collection (see below).
Other of Knibbs' collections included Songs of the Outlands (1914)
and Saddle Songs (1922).
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920.
30742; PQ3; GL; TDB.
REH to H.P. Lovecraft, ca. 23 April 1933, quotes ll. 3-6 of this
poem. Included in Songs of the
Trail.
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Weird Tales, May
1936.
REH to August W. Derleth, 9 May 1936: [Referring to the May 1936 Weird
Tales] "I did like Smith's poem, and Kramer's."
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(1877-1959)
Mit Einer selbstdarstellung des Künstlers
und 130 Bildtafeln. Dresden: Carl
Reissner Verlag, 1926. 30724; PQ3;
GL; TDB. Still in HPU holdings.
REH to F. Wright, ca. July 1930 (SL 1 #38 p. 48): "...a
suggestion of nameless semi-human monstrosity, like the suggestion gotten from a
study of Kubin's Waldgespenst."
The
book title translates as "Demons and Faces of the Night. With an
Autobiography of the Artist and 130 Illustrations."
"Waldgespenst" translates "The Forest Ghost"; the work is
included in Damonen und Nachtgesichte.
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