Poetry and the Gods that Lovecraft and Winifred Jackson co-wrote with a Greek mythology basis. What Anna Helen Crofts contributed to "Poetry and the Gods" is unknown. Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi reports that she "appeared sporadically in the amateur press, and may have been introduced to [Lovecraft] by Winifred Jackson." Lovecraft's surviving letters do not mention "Poetry and the Gods". In his 1955 essay on the Cthulhu Mythos, Lovecraft scholar George Wetzel compares the messenger god Hermes in "Poetry and the Gods" with Nyarlathotep, the "messenger of Azathoth". Wetzel considers the dream communication used by Hermes to be "the same psychic device used
The Messenger (magazine) The Messenger (magazine) The Messenger was an early 20th-century political and literary magazine by and for African-American people in the United States. It was important to the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance and initially promoted a socialist political view. "The Messenger" was co-founded in New York City by Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph in August 1917. After 1920, "The Messenger" featured more articles about black culture and began to publish rising black writers. It became a kind of literary magazine (like "The Little Review", the revived "The Dial", and "The Liberator"), contributing to the Harlem Renaissance. It was notable