1st Edition
Beowulf The Critical Heritage
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Routledge
612 Pages
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Routledge
616 Pages
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Routledge
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Beowulf is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical European language. Our only manuscript, written in Old English, dates from close to the year 1000. However, the poem remained effectively unknown even to scholars until the year 1815, when it was first published in Copenhagen. This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body of... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, ABBREVIATIONS, EDITORIAL PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, APPENDIX A: Key to references to Thorkelin’s edition, APPENDIX B: A note on line numbers, Bibliography, Index
Biography
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).
'The array of commentary presented in this volume provides an interesting conspectus of writings on Beowulf' - Fred C. Robinson, Yale University
