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ix, 283 pages 23 cm During the twenty years that have passed since the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's famous lecture, "Beowulf, the Monsters and the Critics," interest in Beowulf as a work of art has increased gratifyingly, and many fine papers have made distinguished contributions to our understanding of the poem as poetry and as heroic narrative. Much more, however, remains to be done. We have still no systematic and sensitive appraisal of the poem later than Walter Morris Hart's Ballad and Epic, no thorough examination of the poet's gifts and powers, of the effects for which he strove and the means he used to achieve them. More than enough remains to occupy a generation of scholars. It is my hope that this book may serve as a kind of prolegomenon to such study. It makes no claim to completeness or finality; it contributes only the convictions and impressions which have been borne in upon me in the course of forty years of study of the poem. - Preface Includes bibliographical references The diction of Beowulf -- Variation -- The structure and the unity of Beowulf -- Design for terror -- Setting and action -- Episodes and digressions -- Christian and pagan in Beowulf -- Anticipat

Author

Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur

Publisher

Berkeley, University of California Press

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520015128