A Spring Harvest

by Geoffrey Bache Smith

Differentiated book• It has a historical context with research of the time-The poems were edited by JRR Tolkien. Despite some claims to the contrary, Christopher Wiseman was not involved in the editing. He later told John D. Rateliff that he was credited along with Tolkien at the latter's request, as they were the only two surviving members of the "Big Four". Various excerpts from the poems are reproduced in John Garth 's Tolkien and the Great War, who notes that while this collection predates the burst of soldier poetry - largely published by Erskine - he had the same disenchantment and Desillusion like most of the others. In addition, some poems were reproduced in Mark Atherton's book There and Back JRR Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit. Atherton notes that Douglas A. Anderson is currently working on a new edition of A Spring Harvest.Lieutenant Geoffrey Smith Bache (October 18, 1894 - December 3, 1916) was a friend of JRR Tolkien. Tolkien and Smith attended the King King's School in Birmingham together. Smith would also become a major TCBS member, but not until after Vincent Trought's death. At that time he was already enrolled at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, near Tolkien's Exeter College. The two became good friends there, because most of the other Edwardians went to Cambridge.

56 pages, Paperback

Published April 14, 2020