Cimmeria is a poem by Robert E. Howard about the fictional country Cimmeria, created by Howard as part of his Hyborian world which is the setting for his character Conan the Barbarian. In the poem, Cimmeria is described as "land of Darkness and deep Night", a gloomy place with dark woods, dusky silent streams and a leaden cloudy sky. Cimmeria is a poem by Robert E. Howard about the fictional country Cimmeria, created by Howard as part of his Hyborian world which is the setting for his character Conan the Barbarian. ... Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories, published primarily in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ... Cimmeria is a fictional land of barbarians in antediluvian earth (cp. ... A map of Robert E. Howards Hyborian world. ... Jump to: navigation, search – The Nemedian Chronicles, as quoted in The Phoenix on the Sword (1932), by Robert E. Howard. ...
According to Howard, the poem was "Written in Mission, Texas, February 1932; suggested by the memory of the hill-country above Fredricksburg seen in a mist of winter rain". (The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, 2003). The poem has been published in The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (2003).
Poems and stories, long and short, were returned 'with soul-killing regularity.'" [p.197] "Yet, this very sloughing off of reality is the essence of a poet.
Since honest poems are a window on the poet's soul, consideration of the major themes of the poems show us the main concerns of the lonely young man in Cross Plains.
Undoubtedly those soul-shaking ghouls and fl fiends among whom he lived were the price the artist had to pay to gain the intensity of feeling and that secret pool of magic, mysticism, and myth whence he dredged up wizards, warriors, serpents, and scoundrels to disport themselves with ceaseless energy throughout the Hyborean World.
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