Subsequently I was asked to give a talk at Oxonmoot (September 4th-7th), and I agreed to do so. It will be via Zoom, and my topic is "Humphrey Carpenter on Tolkien: Then and Now (Fifty Years Later)." It has recently become fashionable (among certain people) to bash Carpenter for questionable reasons. I will put a wider perspective on this, having worked extensively with Carpenter on several things, including the original publication of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981). My presentation is scheduled for 4 pm UK time on Friday September 5th.
The program for Oxonmoot doesn't seem to have been published yet, but here is the currently available information.
UPDATE 8/20/25: The schedule is now online here.
Very fancy looking dragon!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Doug! Somehow I missed the announcement of your latest honor. I very much look forward to hearing your talk about Humphrey Carpenter. When he was working on his biography of Ezra Pound, my late and much missed Book World colleague Reid Beddow and I took him to lunch at the Hay-Adams and ran up an enormous bill--could we have drunk two bottles of expensive wine in the middle of the day?--and were severely reprimanded by our editor never to do such a thing again.
ReplyDeleteI once met up with Humphrey in New York City--we were researching Auden at Columbia. After a long day he said he had a bottle of scotch he had intended to crack with me, but was too exhausted to do so. I was glad, because I was worn out too.
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Thanks, Bill!
DeleteCongratulations! You very much deserve it!
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Congratulations on this well-deserved award!
ReplyDeleteI don't know how I missed this, but congratulations on a very deserving honor! As you probably can guess, I am quite interested in the topic of your Oxonmoot talk, and look forward to hearing it.
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