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J.I.M. Stewart, 17 September 1981
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien.
Allen and Unwin, 463 pp., £9.95, August 1981,0 04 826005 3 Show More
edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien.
Allen and Unwin, 463 pp., £9.95, August 1981,
Tolkien and the Silmarils
by Randel Helms.
Thames and Hudson, 104 pp., £5.50, September 1981,0 500 01264 4 Show More
by Randel Helms.
Thames and Hudson, 104 pp., £5.50, September 1981,
“... vulgarity of Browning’; meets Walter de la Mare but records, ‘we had little to say’; judges Robert Graves to be an Ass; declares it ‘possible to dislike Eliot with some intensity’; refers to ‘greasy Epstein’, and to his admirer W.H. Auden as belonging (mysteriously) with ‘the corduroy panzers’; dismisses the Poet Laureate as ‘poor old John ... ”