As he entered his most productive period of literary activity in the 1940s, August Derleth continued to augment his novels and tales with a bounty of sensitive poems. His third and fourth volumes of poetry, Here on a Darkling Plain (1940) and Wind in the Elms (1941), focus on many of the same motifs that make his other work so distinctive: the emotive power of landscape, both natural and human-created; the recurring rhythm of the seasons;...
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