Lovecraft's The Tree

"The Tree" was probably written in the spring of 1920. Generally considered a "Dunsanian" story, probably because of its mellifluous prose, it is an anomaly in being set in ancient Greece. Very few of Dunsany's works are set there, with the exception of the play Alexander (1912). The historical details Lovecraft provides allow us to date the story fairly precisely to a period in the mid-fourth century B.C.E. Lovecraft had actually devised the plot as early as 1918, before he ever read Dunsany. The story first appeared in the Tryout (October 1921).

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