Feels like i need inspiration for poetry so im having a look at Allan Edgar Poe and i found this site with a bunch of his stuff. I think poes style is vivid, painting, lenghty and like Lovecraft after him, and as in Lovecraft many of the stories are carried by dialogue.
http://www.online-literature.com/poe/
And also here is Lord Dunsany who, besides Poe was a great inspiration for Lovecraft who is an inspiration for me. He style seem simple, cut short and straight to the point and that of a perceiver of events, as in the old legends such as The odyssé, Arabian nights and The bible. He just jumps right into the thick of things without even explaining who is what and whay is why.
http://www.readbookonline.net/books/Dunsany/89/
So the style of these two are quite different. Lovecrafts style is a lot like Poes i think. Though all three of them have their settings incommon, mysterious, weird and so on.
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