Beowulf - The Critical Heritage

This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body of scholarship on Beowulf, including English translations from German, Danish, Latin and Spanish.

List of contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, ABBREVIATIONS, EDITORIAL PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, APPENDIX A: Key to references to Thorkelin’s edition, APPENDIX B: A note on line numbers, Bibliography, Index

About the author

Tom Shippey holds the Alter J. Ong S.J. Chair of Humanities at Saint Louis University. He has published repeatedly on Beowulf and Old English peotry generally. His colleague Professor Andreas Haarder published the groundbreaking study Beowulf: the Appeal of a Poem (1975).

Summary

This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body of scholarship on Beowulf, including English translations from German, Danish, Latin and Spanish.

Additional text

'The array of commentary presented in this volume provides an interesting conspectus of writings on Beowulf' - Fred C. Robinson, Yale University

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Shippey Haarder
• Assisted by: Andreas Haarder (Editor), T A Shippey (Editor), T. A. Shippey (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9781138009103
• ISBN: 978-1-138-00910-3
• No. of pages: 594
• Series: Critical Heritage
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias