Shippey, T.A. creator text London Harper Collins Publishers 1982 monographic eng

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337 p. Contents Acknowledgements and abbreviations ix Preface to the second edition xv 1 'lit. And lang.' 1 2 philological inquiries 26 3 the bourgeois burglar 51 4 a cartographic plot 87 5 interlacements and the ring 123 6 'when all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones' 159 7 visions and revisions 201 8 'on the cold hill's side' 241 9 'the course of actual composition' 255 afterword 291 Appendix a. Tolkien's sources: the true tradition 296 Appendix b. Four 'asterisk' poems 303 Notes 310 Index 324 /T.A. Shippey English Road--Middle-Earth 823.912 Sh647 0261102753 (pbk) 260519 20260519135016.0