Galleon of Dream: Poems of Fantasy and Wonder is a poetry collection written and illustrated by Lin Carter. The book was released in paperback by The Sign of the Centaur in 1953.[1] in a limited edition of 200 copies.[1][2] The book is dedicated to Doris Margaret Derrick, "friend and teacher."[2]
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| Author | Lin Carter |
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| Illustrator | Lin Carter |
| Cover artist | Lin Carter |
| Language | English |
| Genre | poetry |
| Publisher | The Sign of the Centaur |
Publication date | 1953 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 24 |
| OCLC | 52064669 |
| Preceded by | Sandalwood and Jade |
| Followed by | A Letter to Judith |
Background
editCarter intended the book as a companion to his earlier verse collection Sandalwood and Jade, which, like it, contained lyrical verses of a "fantastic nature." Disclaiming innovation in his poetry, and disdaining "the confusing, uneven and unreadable verse-forms in which modern poetry is torturing its public," he lists his inspirations as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Masefield, Lord Byron, the anonymous author of The Song of Solomon and the pseudonymous author of The Kasidah of Hadji Abdu el Yezdi, Edmund Spenser, Bilhana, George Sterling, Lilith Lorraine, Rudyard Kipling, and Robert Louis Stevenson.[3]
Summary
editThe collection consists of thirty poems, lavishly illustrated, together with a foreword by the author.
Contents
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Notes
edit- ^ a b Galleon of Dream: Poems of Fantasy and Wonder title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ a b Carter, Lin. Galleon of Dream: Poems of Fantasy and Wonder, 1953, p. 4.
- ^ Carter, Lin. Galleon of Dream: Poems of Fantasy and Wonder, 1953, p. 2.
External link
edit- Galleon of Dream: Poems of Fantasy and Wonder (St Petersburg, FL: Sign of the Centaur Press, 1953)