For my money, Tolkien is a BETTER poet than Yeats! In particular, I point to "Errantry" from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and the Finrod-vs.-Sauron passage of the Lay of Leithian. I have a bias toward narrative poetry, true, but nobody other than Poe can do with words what Tolkien can...
-Tevildo, Prince of Cats.
[ March 25, 2002: Message edited by: Tom Tildrum ]
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