![]() Sprague de Camp said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse." Smith was a member of the Lovecraft circle and his literary friendship with Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. Lovecraft", but some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. Smith was one of "the big three of Weird Tales, with Robert E. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. ![]() ![]() Clark Ashton Smith (Janu– August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. ![]()
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