The Collected Poetry of J. R. R. Tolkien Ann Pasternak Slater Unlike earlier translators

Unlike earlier translators

bleak grey days are transformed into a world of glittering frost and snow-blanketed landscapes

Patience Agbabi

giving us a rich sense not only of their formal aspects but also of the passions underlying their linguistic and structural invention

The Collected Poetry of J. R. R. Tolkien Ann Pasternak Slater Unlike earlier translatorsWorld first publication of the collected poems of J. R. R. Tolkien, spanning almost seven decades of the authors 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 Tolkiens readers are aware that he wrote poetry, if only from verses in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, its