Review
Fascinating... Wonderfully exhilarating...In a rousing finale, Groom suggests that Tolkien is exactly the writer we need at this particularly perilous moment, as we emerge, Hobbit-like, from our holes and try to imagine a new kind of life in this post-pandemic age. -
Mail on SundayEach chapter displays a mastery of both the works in question - whether books or adaptations - and of the vast corpus of Tolkien scholarship. Narratives of literary production or of Hollywood bureaucratic processes rarely come as
absorbing as Groom's...
Illuminating...
Groom's explorations of Tolkien's sources... are always provocative and often ingenious. -
Literary Review
Groom's enthusiasm is hard to resist, and his garnering of folklore and customs that, for centuries, guided life through the changing seasons bulges with fascination.
-- John Carey -
Sunday Times on The SeasonsIt's no exaggeration to say that this is a volume I have been waiting for all my life... This is a rich celebration of traditions and a plea for them not to be forgotten. -- Bel Mooney -
Daily Mail on The SeasonsWonderful and timely. -- Philip Hoare -
Independent on The Seasons
About the Author
Nick Groom is Professor in English at the University of Exeter, and Director of ECLIPSE (Exeter Centre for Literatures of Identity, Place, and Sustainability). He has written widely on literature, music, and contemporary art in both academic and popular publications, and is the author of several books including Introducing Shakespeare and The Forger's Shadow. He lives on Dartmoor. The Union Jack was published by Atlantic in 2006.
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