In a Sequester'd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk'd

"In a Sequester'd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk'd" is a short poem by the late American author H. P. Lovecraft. First published in Four Acrostic Sonnets on Edgar Allan Poe by Maurice W. Moe in 1936, it has since been reprinted many times, and has also been translated into French "In a Sequester'd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk'd" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
==Synopsis==
The thirteen lines in two verses describe the graveyard of the Cathedral of St. John in Providence, Rhode Island, and the tragic spirit of Edgar Allan Poe which wanders the plots.
==Behind the Mythos==
Written on 8 August 1936 in the graveyard of the Cathedral of St. John in Providence, Rhode Island, USA Maria Antònia Martí Escayol and Raul Ciannella in MaMuT, No. 1, September 2015, page 26 , "In a Sequester'd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk'd" was written as part of a contest held between Lovecraft, Robert H. Barlow, and Adolphe de Castro "In a Sequester'd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk'd" at the Brown University Digital Repository.
==Publication History ==
*Four Acrostic Sonnets on Edgar Allan Poe (1936)
*Science-Fantasy Correspondent (1937)
*Weird Tales (1938)
*Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1943)
*Collected Poems (1963)
*The Man Who Called Himself Poe (1969)
*The World of H. P. Lovecraft (1971)
*Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems (1971, 2016)
*A Man Called Poe: Stories in the Vein of Edgar Allan Poe (1972)
*Etchings & Odysseys (1984)
*Crypt of Cthulhu (1988)
*The Fantastic Poetry (1990)
*The Ancient Track (2001, 2013)
*Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre (2011)
*Essais - Correspondance - Poésie - Révisions (2021, French-language translation)
*Intégrale (2021, French-language translation)
==References==
Category:H. P. Lovecraft works
Category:Lovecraft Circle Works