Pics:
1. Writings from Lovecraft's political magazine, The Conservative.¹
2. St. Armand's² now rare study of Howard & the Decadent Movement.
3. What we imagine HPL's life to have been like...
Sigh.
4. One of the many zines dedicated to every facet of Lovecraft's life & works.
5. Collection of the letters of 2 writers: one was the creator of Conan,³ the other created Cthulhu.
Two intellectual properties that should be enemies of each other...
I mean, Conan's gotten rid of a lot of mystic monsters but, Cthulhu is a creature of a different kind altogether!
Just hoping for an adversarial 'team up' here...
1915: HPL Output.
Intro: A rather crude & bigoted 'satire' where rebellious Irishmen meet some Germans, celebrate by drinking to- gether & threatened to slander the British Empire of their day.
This poem just happened to be print- ed - in Howard's Conservative - at the same time as the Easter Rebellion,⁴ when some Irish Republicans & some Germans tried to overthrow English rule in Ireland.
The Work: "(The) Ballade of Patrick Von Flynn" by Lewis Theobald, Jr.⁵
Quote:
"Germanis ipsis Germaniores."⁶
Text:
Attend you all my wondrous tale & I will tell to you, Of how an honest Irish- man⁷ into a Prussian grew.
(It) was (almost) 20 years ago I left my native bog, To seek in these majestic States⁸ a place to earn my grog.⁹
Sure, work was easily found for me, For I'm a clever man. I earned so much, I soon could buy my whiskey by the can.
With half a dozen other licks,¹⁰ a merry drinking crew, I used to hang around shebeens¹¹ & curses Old England blue!
Just why I hate the Englishman, I don't remember quite, But Jimmy Dugan's grandad says they've never used¹² Ireland right.
Sure all they ever done for us was civilize¹³ our land, (Yet) we've no use for sober laws, but all for freedom stand.
How glad will be the... day, When England last draws breath, And good Old Ireland shall be free - to drink herself to death!!
Now comes (a most) cruel war, with Germans running loose,... Here's... to them to make a stir¹⁴ (&) give (England) some more abuse!
(We) Irish... love (not the) Dutch,¹⁵ (were) siding with Germany, 'Cause she hates... England as (much) as... we!
...The Kaiser¹⁶ treat(s) us worse than England (has) ever done, But..., if we used England right - we'd lose our sweetest fun!
...Something in the Irish heart... never bows to rules; As (duty?) calls, we teach our sons sedition¹⁷ in the schools.
Last night, the Germans... all gathered in a hall, With... flags above the stage & (the) Kaiser on the wall.
I don't know what they wanted, but so far as I could see, They were (sent? by) the Kaiser & enjoined¹⁸ "neutrality."
They... denounced the President & cursed... Yankee laws, For being too (biased)... to help the German cause.
Footnotes:
1. The Conservative (1915 to 1923) was HPL's own amateur journal, which he edited & published sporadically.
However, many articles in it were actually written by others.
Inside, it included politics, poetry, social commentary, short stories & literary criticism.
Yet, Lovecraft's brand of conservatism bears little resemblance to today's treasonous scene.
Instead, Howard was calling for a revival - a return to the wellspring which 1st inspired Western culture.
HPL's magazine coincided with the 1st world war & the Russian Revolution.
For Lovecraft & his fellow writers crude nationalism & socioeconomic politics weren't the solution they sought.
Rather, they wanted an end to chaos - thru racial division, cultural imperial- ism & a strong sense of morality.
Howard was, at the time, against democracy & liberalism.
HPL's ideal state was a return to the aristocratic values of earlier times - with England as the main culture...
So, The Conservative now stands as a record of Lovecraft's worldview.
And, as a narrow glimpse into early 1900s America.
2. Professor Emeritus Barton Levi St. Armand wrote H.P. Lovecraft: New England Decadent (1979) to offer insight into the history of HPL related scholarship & Howard's roots in the decadent movement of 1800s Europe.
3. Conan, it's thought, lives in the ancient past of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Both story cycles share eldritch monsters & deadly magic - both being very dangerous to normal humans!
Things like Lizard/Snake Men, Dagon, Old Ones, etc are mentioned by both writers.
Yet, Conan kills a lot of these powerful creatures & magicians!!
In fact, Conan is such a badass, that he rudely mocks these evil beings - as he's killing them!!!
4. The Easter (Week) Rebellion/Rising (April 24 to 29, 1916) tried to establish an Irish Republic - while the U.K. was fighting in WW1.
Most of the fighting took place in Dublin, with street battles & long range sniping in different parts of the city.
The rebellion was put down by the larger forces & heavier weapons of the British army.
485 folk were killed, most being civilians & British personnel...
16 rebel leaders were executed.
5. This was 1 of Lovecraft's many pen names.
But, the name seems based upon a real person!
Lewis Theobald was an English textual editor & author known for his work on Shakespearean editing, seven classic translations, some literary satire & play writing.
He was also a plagiarist...
6. Latin "For the Germans themselves, the Germans."
I'd guess that this meant "Germans only wanted other Germans in Germany."
Of such selfish dreams, were so many monstrous crimes built...
7. Ireland ("Eire" locally), as a self- governing dominion (the "Irish Free State") was born in December of 1921.
It took until 1937, for its leaders to pass a new constitution - giving itself more political power over itself.
Then, in 1949, it legally left the British Commonwealth & became its own, true nation - the Republic of Ireland.
8. The United States, that is...
9. Grog originally referred to a daily ration of - diluted! - rum given to sailors of the British Navy in the 1700s.
It was given as a boost to Navy men to fight off the doldrums (calm, wind- less parts in the Equator) of long sea voyages.
Grog, eventually, was made up of rum, gin or whiskey with sugar, lime & water.
10. Knowning the petty meanness of Howard's satires, he must have meant the slang "someone who's been totally overcome, defeated or conquered!"
11. A shebeen, in Ireland, is an illegal (unlicensed & disreputable) working class place that sells alcoholic liquor.
12. Here, HPL means "treated." As in "the Irish were not 'treated' well..."
13. To civilize another nation is here used as in "to bring a people 'up' to a more advanced level."
This, of course, means that the Irish were viewed as a wild & unrefined barbarians!
In truth, they were followers of the older Celtic culture from Europe.
14. Stir, in this case, means "an event that causes a disturbance."
15. The Dutch are people from The Netherlands.
Holland isn't their nation's name! Just two Dutch provinces go by the place names of North & South Holland...
I think I know why Lovecraft hates the Dutch.
These folk, in Howard's time, were thought to have risen from a mixture of Frisian, Saxon & French peoples.
And, we know how HPL believed in 'racial purity'...
The mixing of 'races' is still seen as an abhorrent 'crime' in racist circles.
In fact, the Dutch are now thought to come from a mixture of native folk & German populations!
But, it's now known that rare Paleo- humans were first found living in Spain - around 3 million years ago...
16. Kaiser ("Emperor") was the title of German rulers from 1871 to 1918 - 3 men in all.
17. Sedition is "speaking or organizing things towards a rebellion against an established government."
This includes "subversion of a nation's constitution" & "inciting discontented people to establish an insurrection."
Gosh.
And they say you can learn nothing from history...
18. To enjoin is to "teach" or "urge someone to do something."
In this case, they want the Irish to declare themselves neutral & not help the British militarily.
Strangely enough, as a legal term, it can mean the opposite, "to prohibit" or "ban something" thru a legal order.
Next: Part 2.
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