"Higher Argument: Tolkien and the tradition of Vision, Epic and Prophec" by Dierdre Greene

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Higher Argument: Tolkien and the tradition of Vision, Epic and Prophecy

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This paper attempts to place Tolkien’s fiction in a distinctively English literary context: a tradition of visionary writing which strives toward national epic, existing from Spenser through Milton (and in certain respects, Blake) to Tolkien.

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