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Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery
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Robert E. Howard, The Life and Times of a Texas Author: A review
How do you review a new Robert E. Howard biography? Perhaps with the question: Do we need a new Howard biography? After all, we have two major works already: L. Sprague de Camp’s Dark Valley Destiny and Mark Finn’s Blood and Thunder. There are others too, which I have not read and cannot comment on: David C. Smith’s Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography, and Todd Vick’s Renegades and Rogues:
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“His essay “Epic Pooh,â€� originally published in 1978, skewered Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Richard Adams (author of Watership Down) for, among other perceived offenses, writing the equivalent of coddling, consolatory, nursery-room tales for grownups, stories that reinforced the paternalism of the establishment: I suppose I respond so antipathetically to Lewis and Tolkien because I find this sort of consolatory Christianity distasteful, a fundamentally misanthropic doctrine. â€� It is moderation which ruins Tolkien’s fantasy and causes it to fail as a genuine romance. â€� The Lord of the Rings is much more deep-rooted in its infantilism than a good many of the more obviously juvenile books it influenced. It is Winnie-the-Pooh posing as an epic (126â€�127).”
― Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery
― Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery
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