The most important essay in the history of Beowulf scholarship, J.R.R. Tolkien's "Beowulf: the monsters and the critics" has been much studied and discussed. Bu
In a collection that includes new essays written explicitly for this volume, one of our sharpest and most influential critics confronts the past, present, and f
Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in lif