The Wood

"The Wood" is a short fantasy poem by the late American author H. P. Lovecraft. First published posthumously in the September 1938 edition of pulp magazine Weird Tales, it has since been reprinted numerous times, and has been translated into both German and French "The Wood" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
==Synopsis==
The five four-line verses describe the destruction of an ancient woodland, the rise of a magnificent city of crystal and ivory, and the subsequent return of the primal forest after a careless word spoken by a drunken reveller in a magical tongue.
==Publication History ==
*Weird Tales (1938)
*Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1943)
*Collected Poems (1963)
*The World of H. P. Lovecraft (1971)
*Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems (1971)
*Writings in the Tryout (1977)
*The Fantastic Poetry (1990)
*Fantasia (1990)
*The Ancient Track (2001, 2013)
*Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre (2011, 2020)
*Songs of Giants (2019)
*Essais - Correspondance - Poésie - Révisions (2021, French-language translation)
*Intégrale (2021, French-language translation)
==References==
Category:H. P. Lovecraft works
Category:Lovecraft Circle Works