Lost and found …

… The Clerk’s Forgotten Tale: Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer - Interesting Literature. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

If all of these details make Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer sound as much like a biography as a work of literary criticism, it’s because Bowers deftly manages to balance both aspects of this fascinating story. He’s very good on Tolkien’s annotations, but avoids these becoming too dry – too much in the spirit of some of Tolkien’s own scholarly notes – by linking the significance of these back to Tolkien’s broader life and work.