Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Collected Poems of J. R. R. TolkienCondition: NewFormat: HardbackEAN: 9780008628826Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0008628823ISBN: 9780008628826Release Date: 09/12/2024Author: J. R. R. Tolkien, Christina Scull, Wayne G. HammondItem Length: 149mmItem Height: 228mmType: Poetry & PoetsPublisher: HarperCollinsDescription: World first publication of the collected poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, spanning almost seven decades of the author’s life and presented in an elegant three-volume hardback boxed set. J.R.R. Tolkien aspired to be a poet in the first instance, and poetry was part of his creative life no less than his prose, his languages, and his art. Although Tolkien’s readers are aware that he wrote poetry, if only from verses in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, its extent is not well known, and its qualities are underappreciated. Within his larger works of fiction, poems help to establish character and place as well as further the story; as individual works, they delight with words and rhyme. They express his love of nature and the seasons, of landscape and music, and of words. They convey his humour and his sense of wonder. The earliest work in this collection, written for his beloved, is dated to 1910, when Tolkien was eighteen. More poems would follow during his years at Oxford, some of them very elaborate and eccentric. Those he composed during the First World War, in which he served in France, tend to be concerned not with trenches and battle, but with life, loss, faith, and friendship, his longing for England, and the wife he left behind. Beginning in 1914, elements of his legendarium, ‘The Silmarillion’, began to appear, and the ‘Matter of Middle-earth’ would inspire much of Tolkien’s verse for the rest of his life. Within The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien almost 250 works are presented across three volumes, including more than 70 that have never before been seen. The poems are deftly woven together with commentary and notes by world-renowned Tolkien scholars Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond, placing them in the context of Tolkien’s life and literary accomplishments and creating a poetical biography that is a unique and revealing celebration of J.R.R. Tolkien.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Width: 142mmItem Weight: 2780gContributor: Christina Scull (Edited by), Wayne G. Hammond (Edited by)Genre: Poetry & DramaTopic: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Format: Hardback
Book Title: The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien
Publication Name: The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien
Title: The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien
EAN: 9780008628826
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0008628823
ISBN: 9780008628826
Release Date: 09/12/2024
Release Year: 2024
Author: Wayne G. Hammond
Item Length: 149mm
Item Height: 228mm
Type: Poetry & Poets
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Width: 142mm
Item Weight: 2780g
Contributor: Wayne G. Hammond (Edited by)
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Topic: Literary Criticism
