- The Dark Chateau
Infobox Book
name = The Dark Chateau
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image_caption = Jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for "The Dark Chateau"
author =Clark Ashton Smith
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cover_artist = Frank Utpatel
country =United States
language = English
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genre =poetry
publisher =Arkham House
release_date =1951
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 63 pp
isbn = NA
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followed_by ="The Dark Chateau" is a collection of poems by
Clark Ashton Smith . It was released in 1951 and was the author's fourth book to be published byArkham House . It was released in an edition of 563 copies. The book was intended to be a stop-gap volume representing Smith's poetry while the more extensive "Selected Poems" was being prepared, although "Selected Poems" did not ultimately appear until 1971.Contents
"The Dark Chateau" contains the following poems:
# "Amithaine"
# "Seeker"
# "The Dark Chateau"
# "Lamia"
# "Pour Chercher du Nouveau"
# "'O Golden-Tongued Romance'"
# "Averoigne"
# "Zothique"
# "The Stylite"
# "Dominium in Excelsis"
# "Moly"
# "Two Myths and a Fable"
# "Eros of Ebony"
# "Shapes in the Sunset"
# "Not Theirs the Cypress-Arch"
# "Don Quixote on Market Street"
# "Malediction"
# "Hellenic Sequel"
# "The Cypress"
# "The Old Water-Wheel"
# "Calenture"
# "Soliloquy in an Ebon Tower"
# "Sinbad, It Was Not Well to Brag"
# "Sonnet for the Psychoanalysts"
# "Surrealists Sonnet"
# "The Twilight of the Gods"
# "The Poet Talks With the Biographers"
# "Desert Dwellers"
# "Hesperian Fal"
# "'Not Altogether Sleep'"
# "Some Blind Eidolon"
# "The Isle of Saturn"
# "Oblivion"
# "Revenant"
# "In Slumber"
# "Cambion"
# "The Witch With Eyes of Amber"
# "The Outer Land"
# "Luna Aeternalis"
# "Ye Shall Return"References
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*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=34 | date=1998
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*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=73-74 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4
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