#literary-influences

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fromMedievalists.net
1 week ago

Online Course: Tolkien and his Medieval Sources - Medievalists.net

For more than half a century J.R.R. Tolkien has gripped the public imagination with his tales of wizards, hobbits, orcs, and elves. But Tolkien took his inspiration from a far older body of literature, the epics, poems, lais and sagas of the Middle Ages.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Margaret Drabble: Our family had a passion for Georgette Heyer'

My earliest reading memory being taught to read by my father using a primer called The Radiant Way inspired my love for literature and writing.
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fromVulture
7 months ago

Robert Smith Is a Big Ol' Book Nerd

Robert Smith's songwriting is profoundly influenced by literature, culminating in The Cure's latest album, a meditation on death and time.
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