Poems and Stories (J. R. R. Tolkien)

Poems and Stories

Author	J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator	Pauline Baynes
Cover artist	Alan Lee
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Allen & Unwin
Publication date	1980
Media type	Print
Pages	342
ISBN	0-04-823174-6
OCLC	6935424

Poems and Stories is a posthumous anthology of some of the previously published short fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973). It also includes the literary essay "On Fairy Stories", and the illustrations of Pauline Baynes, which have appeared in other publications. In this volume, the illustrations are in colour.

Poems and Stories was first published in the UK in a boxed, hardcover "deluxe edition" by Allen & Unwin in 1980. It was reissued in hardcover by HarperCollins in 1992. Houghton Mifflin published a hardcover edition for the United States in 1994.

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, 16 poems "of hobbit origin" about Tom Bombadil
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, a play in alliterative verse about the historical Battle of Maldon (991 CE)
"On Fairy Stories", an essay in which Tolkien discusses the fairy-story as a literary form
"Leaf by Niggle", an allegorical short story concerning a painter and his neighbour
"Farmer Giles of Ham", a novella about an English farmer who encounters a dragon
"Smith of Wootton Major", a short story about the people in a village near Oxford, and of one man's immersion in the world of Faerie

References

J. R. R. Tolkien
Bibliography
Fiction	Songs for the Philologists (1936) The Hobbit (1937) Leaf by Niggle (1947) The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945/2016) Farmer Giles of Ham (1949) The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) The Two Towers (1954) The Return of the King (1955) The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962) Tree and Leaf (1964) The Tolkien Reader (1966) The Road Goes Ever On (1967) Smith of Wootton Major (1967)
Posthumous fiction	Bilbo's Last Song (1974) The Father Christmas Letters (1976) The Silmarillion (1977) Poems and Stories (1980) Unfinished Tales (1980) Mr. Bliss (1982) The History of Middle-earth (1983–1996) The Book of Lost Tales The Lays of Beleriand The Shaping of Middle-earth The History of The Lord of the Rings The Lost Road and Other Writings The War of the Ring Sauron Defeated Morgoth's Ring The War of the Jewels The Peoples of Middle-earth Tales from the Perilous Realm (1997) Roverandom (1998) The Children of Húrin (2007) The History of The Hobbit (2007) The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009) The Fall of Arthur (2013) The Story of Kullervo (2015) Beren and Lúthien (2017) The Fall of Gondolin (2018)
Academic works	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925) The Devil's Coach Horses (1925) Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad (1929) Sigelwara Land (1932–34) Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale (1934) Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1936) On Fairy-Stories (1939) On Translating Beowulf (1940) Sir Orfeo (1944) Ancrene Wisse (1962) English and Welsh (1963) Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer, 1966)
Posthumous academic	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Modern English translations, 1975) Finn and Hengest (1982) The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays (1983) Beowulf and the Critics (2002) Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary with Sellic Spell (2014) A Secret Vice (1983/2016) List of Tolkien's alliterative verse
Related	Influences Languages constructed by Tolkien Inklings Mythopoeic Society The Tolkien Society Tolkien Reading Day Tolkien Studies Memorials Tolkien research Works inspired by Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (1977, authorized biography) Tolkien (biographical film) Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
Family	Edith Tolkien (wife) Christopher Tolkien (son) Simon Tolkien (grandson)

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