Beowulf and the Critics

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Title Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien

Dustwrapper of first edition
Author J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Michael D. C. Drout
Country United States
Language English
Series Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Volume 248
Subject(s) Beowulf criticism
Genre(s) Literature, Essays
Publisher Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Arizona
Released 2002
Media type Hardcover
Pages 461
ISBN 0-8669-8290-6


Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien is a book edited by Michael D. C. Drout that presents scholary editions of the two manuscript versions of Tolkien's essays or lecture series "Beowulf and the Critics", which served as the basis for the much shorter 1936 lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics".

Beowulf and the Critics was awarded the 2003 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies.