Thursday 27 June 2024

Reading JRR Tolkien aged thirteen made me a Romantic "Outsider"


Over at The Notion Club Papers blog; I discuss the life-transforming effect that reading The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings had upon me; such that, from then onward, there was always a strong underlying element or Romanticism in my nature - something that made me identify most with those individuals that Colin Wilson famously termed The Outsiders

  

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