Evocation of Virgil in Tolkien's Art Robert E. Morse

Evocation of Virgil in Tolkien's Art

Author: Robert E. Morse

Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

Publication Date: 31 January, 1999

ISBN: 9780865161757

Pages: 80

Subjects: Literary criticism

Available as: Trade Cloth, 978-0-86516-175-7

Description:

In his Preface, Robert Morse states that both Vergil and Tolkien present myth as an aspect of an historical continuum. For these authors, myth does not seem to represent a falsehood, but rather it seems to narrate a record of experience from which humanity learns. Thus, myth is...a form of memory. In Evocation of Vergil in Tolkien's Art, Robert Morse asks the question: does this syncretism of myth and history serve a similar purpose in each author?