The Poe-et's Nightmare

"The Poe-et's Nightmare: A Fable" is a lengthy poem by the late American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1916 and first published in the July 1918 edition of The Vagrant Excerpt from An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia at Academic.com.
==Synopsis==
The poem relates the story of one Lucullus Languish who, after an evening of over-eating and reading the works of Edgar Allan Poe, is taken on a fever-dream tour of the universe in which he is shown the insignificance of the human race in the grand scheme of the universe. Upon waking, he resolves never again to mix his physical indulgences with poetry.
==Behind the Mythos==
In An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, S. T. Joshi and Peter Cannon describe "The Poe-et's Nightmare" as "perhaps HPL’s first enunciation of cosmicism, predating even his early stories," and note that "[i]n later years HPL found the rhymed framework dissatisfying, thinking that it detracted from the seriousness of the cosmic message." 
==Publication History "The Poe-et's Nightmare: A Fable" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database==
*The Vagrant (1918)
*Something About Cats and Other Pieces (1949)
*The World of H. P. Lovecraft (1971)
*Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems (1971)
*The Fantastic Poetry (1990)
*The Ancient Track (2001, 2013)
*Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre (2011, 2020)
==References==
Category:H. P. Lovecraft works
Category:Lovecraft Circle Works