![]() ![]() These detailed timelines were designed to provide him with a palette of exotic locations, historic events, and social structures to draw from. ![]() He drew heavily on real myth and legend for these lost ages however, populating the world with states and regions carefully named to suggest aspects of reality. ![]() Rather than trample all over the real past, he set his series in meticulous histories of his own devising. But this meant that he had very little time to research the details of any given story. In his short time, Howard turned out an incredible amount of work. The only way to survive was to be prolific. ![]() Life as a writer for the pulps came with certain strictures, however. His own Celtic heritage intrigued him, and in his stories he turned time and again to the north and west of the British Isles for inspiration. Howard loved history, and he was particularly fascinated by its broad brush-strokes – the spread of peoples, the rise and fall of civilisations, the epic conflicts that marked epochs. “Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of…” The Phoenix on the Sword, Robert E. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |