Understanding The Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism. Rose A Zimbardo

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page: 304
ISBN: 9780618422517


When first published, The Lord of the Rings stood far from the mainstream: no one had seen anything like it for decades. Tolkien's almost stridently antimodern tale needed valiant defenders, vocal admirers who understood its sources and relished its monumental scale. While such champions of modernism as Edmund Wilson mocked Tolkien's archaic structure and language, W. H. Auden—a great modernist poet in his own right—rose to his defense with a spirited essay on the true nature of the Hero Quest. Edmund Fuller's essay collected here discusses the nature of the fairy tale, returning to the roots of the term to remove the treacle of Disney and restore the value of realistic enchantment. ...

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