Letters
TCG Letter #2325
From
Geoffrey Bache Smith
To
J.R.R. Tolkien
Date
[27 March 1915]
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Unknown
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.