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17-508: Mi-Go are first named as such in Lovecraft's short story "The Whisperer in Darkness" (1931). However, since they are described in this story as "fungi" that come "from Yuggoth," they can be considered an elaboration on earlier references to alien vegetation on dream-worlds in Lovecraft's sonnet cycle Fungi from Yuggoth (1929–30). The Mi-Go are large, pinkish, fungoid, crustacean -like entities

34-454: A "brain cylinder", which can be attached to external devices to allow it to see, hear, and speak. In " The Whisperer in Darkness " the Mi-Go are heard to give praise to Nyarlathotep and Shub-Niggurath , suggesting some form of worship. Their moral system is completely alien, making them seem highly malicious from a human perspective. One of the moons of Yuggoth holds designs that are sacred to

51-600: A number of earlier profane poems were reworked. The same year the biblical poetry of Den val en de Opstand van David/Leed-tuyghende Pasalmen (David's fall and rise / Penitential Psalms) was published as well. His most important work of poetry, Goddelijcke Wenschen (Divine Wishes), appeared in 1629. It was a complete adaptation of the Herman Hugo 's Pia desideria (1624). In 1630 Cornelius Jansen , who had just been promoted to professor in Leuven, called upon de Harduwijnto translate

68-410: A particular person or theme, and designed to be read both as a collection of fully realized individual poems and as a single poetic work comprising all the individual sonnets. A sonnet cycle may have any theme, but unrequited love is the most common. The arrangement of the sonnets generally reflects thematic concerns, with chronological arrangements (whether linear, like a progression, or cyclical, like

85-587: The Spanish Netherlands . During his life, de Harduwijn was one of the most widely read poets of the Netherlands. He was largely forgotten after his death but was rediscovered in the 19th century by Jan Frans Willems and the writer Johannes M. Schrant. During the 20th century, Oscar Dambre, a literary historian from Ghent, devoted several studies to de Harduwijn, and composer Arthur Meulemans put his text Clachte van Maria benevens het Kruis (Mary's lament by

102-654: The Counter-Reformation pamphlet Alexipharmacum into Dutch. In 1635 de Harduwijn, together with David Lindanus , wrote Goeden Yever tot het Vaderland ter blijde inkomste van den Coninclijcken Prince Ferdinand van Oostenryck (Good Zeal for the Fatherland on the joyous entry of the Royal Prince Ferdinance of Austria), celebrating the Joyous Entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria as Governor General of

119-569: The Mi-Go; these are useful in various processes mentioned in the Necronomicon . It is said that transcriptions of these designs can be sensed by the Mi-Go, and those possessing them shall be hunted down by the few remaining on Earth. The narrator of "The Whisperer in Darkness" learns that, ostensibly, a group known as the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign is dedicated to hunting down and exterminating

136-445: The fungoid threat, though it is unknown if this is actually true since it was given as a pat explanation for the Mi-Go remaining hidden. The name " Hastur " is mentioned in passing among several other places and things, was eventually applied into a god-like alien being by August Derleth who gave Hastur the title "Him Who is Not to be Named". However, in Lovecraft's story, a human ally of the Mi-Go mentions "Him Who Is Not to Be Named" in

153-511: The highest judicial college in the County of Flanders . His father was a friend of writer Jan van der Noot who had introduced him to the French poets of La Pléiade , and is said to have been the first translator of Anacreon into Dutch. Justus' uncle, Dionysius de Harduwijn, was a historian, and Justus inherited his rich library. The humanist poet Maximiliaan de Vriendt was another uncle of his, and he

170-494: The list of honored entities along with Nyarlathotep and Shub-Niggurath, and "Hastur" in connection with the cult of the Yellow Sign opposing the Mi-Go's work on Earth. Lovecraft never made a connection between Hastur and "Him Who Is Not to Be Named", and indeed did not even imply Hastur was a being; Derleth was the one to do so. Sonnet cycle A sonnet cycle or sonnet sequence is a group of sonnets , arranged to address

187-417: The original short story, the creatures cannot be recorded using ordinary photographic film, due to their bodies being formed from otherworldly matter. They are capable of going into suspended animation until softened and reheated by the sun or some other source of heat. The Mi-Go can transport humans from Earth to Pluto (and beyond) and back again by removing the subject's living brain and placing it into

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204-613: The parish priest of Oudegem and Mespelare , functions which he occupied until his death in Oudegem in 1636. Justus de Harduwijn became a member of the chamber of rhetoric of Aalst . As a student, he composed the love sonnets De weerliicke liefde tot Roosemond , influenced by the poets of the Pléiade; it was the first book of sonnets written entirely in Dutch, as earlier humanists had written in Latin. It

221-925: The seasons) being the most common. A sonnet cycle may also have allegorical or argumentative structures which replace or complement chronology. While the thematic arrangement may reflect the unfolding of real or fictional events, the sonnet cycle is very rarely narrative; the narrative elements may be inferred, but provide background structure, and are never the primary concern of the poet's art. Notable sonnet cycles have been written by France Prešeren , Dante Alighieri , Petrarch , Pierre de Ronsard , Edmund Spenser , Rupert Brooke , Sir Philip Sidney , William Shakespeare , John Donne , Justus de Harduwijn , William Wordsworth , Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Hans Irrigmann , Jacques Perk , Rainer Maria Rilke , and Edna St. Vincent Millay . Justus de Harduwijn Justus de Harduwijn , also written Hardwijn, Herdewijn, Harduyn or Harduijn (11 April 1582 - Oudegem , 21 June 1636),

238-481: The size of a man; where a head would be, they have a "convoluted ellipsoid" composed of pyramided, fleshy rings and covered in antennae. They are about five feet (1.5 m) long, and their crustacean-like bodies bear numerous sets of paired appendages. They possess a pair of membranous bat-like wings which are used to fly through the " aether " of outer space. The wings do not function well on Earth. Several other races in Lovecraft's Mythos also have wings like these. In

255-742: Was a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest and poet from the Southern Netherlands . He was the poetic link between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation in the Netherlands. De Harduwijn was born in a humanist , intellectual family in Ghent . His grandfather Thomas was a steward to Louis of Praet . His father Franciscus owned a bookbinding shop in Ghent and was a member of the Council of Flanders ,

272-617: Was also related to Daniel Heinsius . De Harduwijn studied at the Jesuit college which had recently been established in Ghent. Around 1600 he went to the University of Leuven where he studied under Justus Lipsius and in 1605 became a Bachelor in Law. Subsequently, he studied theology at the seminary of Douai . In April 1607 De Harduwijn was ordained a priest , and in December of the same year he became

289-551: Was published anonymously in 1613 by Verdussen in Antwerp, with the poet Guilliam Caudron as the editor. Influenced by Henricus Calenus and Jacobus Boonen , who would become his patron , De Harduwijn found his inspiration in divine contemplations. In 1614 he wrote Lof-Sanck des Heylich Cruys (Paean to the Holy Cross), a translation of a work by Calenus. In Goddelicke Lofsanghen (Divine Songs of Praise, 1620), dedicated to Boonen,

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