Songs and Sonnets Atlantean
Jacket illustration by Gordon R. Barnett for first Songs and Sonnets Atlantean | |
| Author | Donald Sidney-Fryer |
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| Cover artist | Gordon R. Barnett |
| Language | English |
| Genre | poetry |
| Publisher | Arkham House, Wildside Press, Phosphor Lantern Press, Hippocampus Press |
Publication date | First Series June 16, 1971; Second Series summer 2003; Third Series September 2005; trilogy 2008 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Printed volumes |
| Pages | First Series; xxx, 134 pp.; Second Series 159 pp.; Third Series 192 pp.; trilogy 550 pp. |
Songs and Sonnets Atlantean refers to either the 1971 first volume in a trilogy of poetry collections by Donald Sidney-Fryer or to his complete trilogy. Each volume claims some poems were written by poets in the lost continent of Atlantis and translated by Sidney-Fryer into English. Songs and Sonnets Atlantean: The Second Series was published in 2003, and The Third Series in 2005. All three Atlantean collections were gathered in the 2008 volume The Atlantis Fragments: The Trilogy of Songs and Sonnets Atlantean. Sidney-Fryer also wrote two companion novels. His series has been praised by critics. “Fryer has created, in his fictional Atlantis, an entire civilization and a body of absorbing literature,” said New Bedford Standard-Times. Fritz Leiber wrote in Fantastic Stories: “A total picture of a fabulous Atlantis is presented, more convincing and touching than that of a novel might be. But the book ... shows much more than that. Sunken Atlantis becomes a symbol of all lost glories and grandeurs of Earth.” The Murfreesboro Sidelines reported: “The poems are of unearthly beauty. ... Whether the poems really are from the Atlantean or whether they are the creations of the poet Fryer, they deserve to be read and to be experienced.”