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== Critica ==

Frank Coffman afferma come questa poesia dimostri non solo l'amore di Howard per la storia e il suo uso come base dei suoi lavori, ma anche la sua padronanza della forma poetica e del suono.

A Review of Robert E. Howard’s “The One Black Stain”

by Frank Coffman

Secondo Coffman ''L'unica macchia nera'' mostra due aspetti del carattere di Kane: il suo odio per l'ingiustizia, forse soprattutto se legata all'abuso di potere, e la volubilità del suo temperamento, seppure la "''sua ira sia a fuoco lento''".

Robert E. Howard’s poem, “The One Black Stain,” is a work proving the young man’s mastery of poetic form and sound. It also exemplifies Howard’s love of history and real historical subjects to ground his fictional work—both in prose and poetic forms.

The poem recounts the execution of Sir Thomas Doughty by Sir Francis Drake—with the fictional addition of the character of Solomon Kane, not only at the scene, but giving his objections to the execution to the extent that Drake has Kane arrested and bound belowdecks. Kane, of course, then gets free of his bonds, helped by a sleeping guard and confronts Drake threateningly—before disappearing into the night at the poem’s conclusion. Thematically, it demonstrates a couple characteristics of the character of Kane: 1) his hatred of injustice (and, perhaps specifically, of authority abused); 2) though his “wrath” is “slow to rise,” it reinforces the lethal volatility of his temper.

Typical of Howard who had become a master of the narrative poem—an art that fell away from popularity among “free verse” and other “realist/modern” poets in the later 20th c. and has only in the past few decades seen a true revival—the poem is a variation of the ballad form, due to its regularity of rhythm of the type known as the “literary ballad” (as opposed to the “folk ballad” or “ballad of tradition” that has been the standard in Western language narrative poetics for over 800 years).