Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
This is a title of an essay about H. P. Lovecraft written by S. T. Joshi.
In plain terms
An essay title about Lovecraft.
What can you take from it?
Study the author to understand the work.

Where it applies

  • academic study
  • reading criticism
  • biography research

Putting it to work

  • reading critical essays
  • citing scholars
  • studying authors

Questions to consider

  • Who writes about your favorite authors?
  • What makes a good critique?

Another view

It is a metadata title rather than a quote with meaning.

More from H. P. Lovecraft

  1. Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor, and something terrible - though I know not in what proportion - still remains.

    Permalink to quote #77

  2. What it is, only God knows. In terms of matter I suppose the thing Ammi described would be called a gas, but this gas obeyed the laws that are not of our cosmo…

    Permalink to quote #76

  3. Even the dry tips of the lingering hedge-mustard, grey and blighted, and the fringe on the roof of the standing democrat-wagon were unstirred. And yet amid tha…

    Permalink to quote #75

Related quotes

  1. The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, g…

    H. P. LovecraftH. P. Lovecraft quote #1

  2. Get stewed: Books are a load of crap.

    Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin quote #1

  3. The author of Amelia, the most singular genius which their island ever produced, whose works it has long been the fashion to abuse in public and to read in sec…

    George BorrowGeorge Borrow quote #1