TOLKIEN AS AUDEN’S TOUCHSTONE.

February 16, 2008 · Literature

TOLKIEN AS AUDEN’S TOUCHSTONE. Frank Kermode in the London Review of Books for February 7 says that, [“Auden’s] devotion to Tolkien was such that any refusal, however polite, to accept that author’s achievement as beyond criticism entailed exclusion from the company of critics he would thenceforth pay attention to.”