{"id":218,"date":"2001-12-17T11:48:54","date_gmt":"2001-12-17T19:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/12\/17\/218.html"},"modified":"2001-12-17T11:48:54","modified_gmt":"2001-12-17T19:48:54","slug":"auden-on-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/12\/17\/auden-on-tolkien\/","title":{"rendered":"Auden on Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <cite>New York Times<\/cite> has put up a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/specials\/advertising\/movies\/tolkien\/index.html\">articles about <cite>LotR<\/cite><\/a>, including WH Auden's original reviews of <cite>Fellowship<\/cite> (1954) and (further down the page) <cite>Return of the King<\/cite> (1956).  (The latter is particularly interesting; discusses the tension between sf (or rather, the Heroic Quest) and Literature, as described by someone from the literary side of the fence who nonetheless really likes Tolkien.)  No registration\/password needed; I think the <cite>Times<\/cite> sees this as good advertising (or possibly it's even been paid for by the movie people, dunno).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has put up a set of articles about LotR, including WH Auden&#8217;s original reviews of Fellowship&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}