The City

"The City" is a poem by the late American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft. It was first published in the October 1919 edition of amateur press magazine The Vagrant Data Page for "The City" at the H. P. Lovecraft Archive; it has since been reprinted numerous times, and has also been translated into French Title: "The City" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
==Synopsis ==
The nine five-line verses describe the narrator's admiration for a long-abandoned city, and his dawning realisation of the terrifying calamity which befell the place.
==Publication History==
*Something About Cats and Other Pieces (1949)
*Weird Tales (1950, 1951)
*Collected Poems (1963)
*The World of H. P. Lovecraft (1971)
*Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems (1971)
*The Fantastic Poetry (1990)
*The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft (2001, 2013)
*Essais - Correspondance - Poésie - Révisions (2021)
*Write Like Hell: Lovecraft in a Time of Madness (2021)
==References==
Category:H. P. Lovecraft works
Category:Lovecraft Circle Works