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TCG Letter #2325
From
G. B. Smith
To
J.R.R. Tolkien
Date
27 March 1915
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Partial
Smith responds to the poems that Tolkien had sent him. Smith likes poems in the classical form, and doesn't understand Tolkien's wayward romanticism. He urges Tolkien to simplify 'Sea Chant' and other poems. Mentions Tolkien's fragments of 'The Voyage of Éarendel' and other poems sent to Smith at Magdalen College.
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