Called "The Last of the Courtly Poets," Donald Sidney-Fryer (b. 1934) continues the tradition of California Romantic Poetry whose luminaries include Ambrose Bierce, George Sterling, Nora May French and Clark Ashton Smith while standing in the long shadow of that other Courtly Poet, Edmund Spenser, author of the Elizabethan epic romance The Faerie Queene.Foremost among his original works are the Songs and Sonnets Atlantean series (first series, 1971; second series, 2003; third series, 2005; collected as The Atlantis Fragments, 2008). Sidney-Fryer has also translated important works in French by Baudelaire, José-Maria de Heredia, and Aloysius Bertrand. His bio-bibliography of Clark Ashton Smith, Emperor of Dreams (1976), forms the cornerstone of Smith studies, along with his seminal essay on Smith's life and work, "The Sorcerer Departs."As a performing artist, Donald Sidney-Fryer's recitation of poems by Spenser, Baudelaire, Sterling and Smith (sometimes with lute) pay homage to his masters in the ancient craft of enchauntment.