Beowulf and the Critics

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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, Arizona State University
Publication date	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.

v • d • e J. R. R. Tolkien

Bibliography

Fiction	Songs for the Philologists (1936) • The Hobbit or There and Back Again (1937) • Leaf by Niggle (1945) • The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945) • Farmer Giles of Ham (1949) • The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953) • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), The Two Towers (1954), The Return of the King (1955) • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962) • The Road Goes Ever On (1967) • Tree and Leaf (1964) • The Tolkien Reader (1966) • Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

Posthumous Fiction	The Father Christmas Letters (1976) • The Silmarillion (1977) • Unfinished Tales (1980) • Bilbo's Last Song (1990) • The History of Middle-earth (12 Volumes) (1983–1996) • Roverandom (1998) • The Children of Húrin (2007) • The History of The Hobbit (2007)

Academic	A Middle English Vocabulary (1922) • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925) • Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography (1925) • The Devil's Coach Horses (1925) • Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad (1929) • The Name 'Nodens' (1932) • Sigelwara Land parts I and II, in Medium Aevum (1932-34) • Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale (1934) • Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1936) • The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the 'summer diversions' (1939) • On Fairy-Stories (1939) • Sir Orfeo (1944) • Ofermod and Beorhtnoth's Death (1953) • Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic enquiry (1953) • Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (1962) • English and Welsh (1963) • Introduction to Tree and Leaf (1964) • Contributions to the Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer) (1966) • Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical) (1966)

Posthumous Academic	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Modern English translations, 1975) • Finn and Hengest (1982) • The Monsters and the Critics (1983) • Beowulf and the Critics (2002)

v • d • e The Old English poem Beowulf

Characters	Beowulf · Grendel · Grendel's mother · Hroðgar · Ecgþeow · Hygelac · Heardred · Æschere · Onela · Wealhþeow · Wiglaf

Objects and related texts	Heorot · Hrunting · Nowell Codex

Scholars and translators	M. H. Abrams · Michael J. Alexander · Nora Kershaw Chadwick · Michael D. C. Drout · Stephen Greenblatt · Frederick Klaeber · Seamus Heaney · Burton Raffel · J. R. R. Tolkien · Charles Leslie Wrenn

Artistic representations	Grendel (1971 novel) · Grendel, Grendel, Grendel (1981 film) · Eaters of the Dead (1976 novel) · The Legacy of Heorot (1987 novel) · Beowulf's Children (1996 novel) · Beowulf (1999 film) · The 13th Warrior (1999 film) · Beowulf & Grendel (2005 film) · Wrath of Gods (2005 documentary film) · Grendel (2007 film) · Beowulf (2007 film)

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