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TCG Letter #1278
From
R.W. Reynolds
To
J.R.R. Tolkien
Date
19 July 1915
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Unknown
While Tolkien is at Bedford for Army training R.W. Reynolds writes to him commenting on the poems Tolkien sent him. Among them were 'You & Me and the Cottage of Lost Play', 'The Shores of Faery', 'Kôr: In a City Lost and Dead', and 'The Princess Nî' are mentioned by Reynolds. Reynolds says that he finds echoes of Icelandic sagas, William Morris, Rudyard Kipling, and Walter de la Mare.
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