A Northern Venture: Verses by Members of the Leeds University English School Association.

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Scarce. Tolkien spent the first half of the 1920s lecturing in the English Department at Leeds University, before returning to Oxford; whilst there he contributed to a few collections of poetry printed by Sydney Matthewman at his Swan Press, based on Swan Street in the city. Tolkien contributes three poems: 'The Eadigan Saelidan', 'Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon', and 'Enigmata Saxonica', all of which appear for the first time here - the last of which not subsequently reprinted. He is joined in the anthology by his Oxford contemporary W.R. Childe and the Canadian philologist E.V. Gordon, whom he had previously tutored whilst he was a Rhodes Scholar at Univeristy College, Oxford.