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Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

1991

Brendan, St.—Voyages of

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Sailing West: Tolkien, The Saint Brendan Story, And The Idea Of Paradise In The West, Norma Roche Jul 1991

Sailing West: Tolkien, The Saint Brendan Story, And The Idea Of Paradise In The West, Norma Roche

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Discusses the idea of a paradise in the West—its mythological and literary sources, its relationship to history, and Tolkien’s use of it in the poem “Imram.”