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[10] Viewing the question of how Tolkien could achieve this from the point of view of biography, Garth notes that he read classical poetry by Virgil and Homer when at school, and was made to translate poetry from both Latin and Greek. He was attracted to writing poetry by its technical difficulty, which suited "his perfectionism ...
In Ireland, he wrote most of what became The Once and Future King: The Witch in the Wood (later cut and rewritten as The Queen of Air and Darkness) in 1939, and The Ill-Made Knight in 1940. The version of The Sword in the Stone included in The Once and Future King differs from the earlier version; it is darker, and some critics prefer the ...
New Zealand two pence stamp from between 1855 and 1872 shows an S and part of the R from the T. H. Saunders watermark. Thomas Harry Saunders (19 September 1813, London – 5 February 1870, Dartford), usually called T. H. Saunders, was a British paper-maker known especially for his watermarks, and also a philanthropist.
Tolkien's poetry is extremely varied, including both the poems and songs of Middle-earth, and other verses written throughout his life. J. R. R. Tolkien embedded over 60 poems in the text of The Lord of the Rings; there are others in The Hobbit and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil; and many more in his Middle-earth legendarium and other manuscripts which remained unpublished in his lifetime ...
The Queen of Air and Darkness is a fantasy novel by English writer T. H. White.It is the second book in his series The Once and Future King.It continues the story of the newly crowned King Arthur, his tutelage by the wise Merlyn, his war against King Lot, and also introduces the Orkney clan, a group of characters who would cause the eventual downfall of the king.
Thomas Traherne (/ t r ə ˈ h ɑːr n /; 1636 or 1637 – c. 27 September 1674) was an English poet, Anglican cleric, theologian, and religious writer.The intense, scholarly spirituality in his writings has led to his being commemorated by some parts of the Anglican Communion on 10 October (the anniversary of his burial in 1674) or on 27 September.
[45] [46] Robert MacFarlane, in his 2012 book The Old Ways, critiques Thomas and his poetry in the context of his own explorations of paths and walking as an analogue of human consciousness. [47] The last years of Thomas's life are explored in A Conscious Englishman , a 2013 biographical novel by Margaret Keeping, published by StreetBooks. [ 48 ]
As a poet, he was the first to win the double of Chair (for an awdl, or long poem in strict metre) and Crown (for a free verse poem) at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, a feat which he first achieved at Wrexham in 1912 and repeated at Bangor in 1915. He was Professor of Welsh at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, from 1920 until 1952. [3]