XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:54:52 -0500, Stan Brown    
   wrote:   
      
   >In article  in   
   >rec.arts.books.tolkien, Jamie Andrews  wrote:   
   >>In rec.arts.books.tolkien the softrat  wrote:   
   >>> The only post-Chaucerian   
   >>> English of which there is a record of Tolkien reading is Spenser,   
   >>> Shakespeare, Milton, and 20th century science fiction/fantasy, and   
   >>> apparently he didn't like the Shakespeare or the Milton.   
   >>   
   >>     He professed an admiration of Auden's poetry, though it's   
   >>hard (for me) to tell whether this was just out of politeness   
   >>due to Auden's effusive praise of LOTR.   
   >   
   >Maybe. But Lewis was equally a booster, and Tolkien had no problem   
   >saying he didn't like the Narnia stories. So I think "I'll cut him   
   >some slack because he praises my work" doesn't really explain why   
   >Tolkien said he liked Auden's poetry.   
   >   
   >Surely the simplest and most likely explanation is that he said he   
   >liked it because he liked it?   
      
   I'm not sure what "booster" means in this context - or was it a typo for   
   "boaster"?   
      
   "Booster" sounds like something from rocket science!   
      
      
      
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