Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, J.R.R. Tolkien's 1936 lecture published in the Proceedings of the British Academy, is the essay credited with turning Beowulf scholarship toward treating the poem as literature rather than only as a historical or linguistic quarry. Its strength is that it is a landmark, still widely cited scholarly work by a major philologist. Its limit is that it is now nearly ninety years old, and later Anglo-Saxon scholarship has developed well beyond its specific readings.
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J.R.R. Tolkien's Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Proceedings of the British Academy, 1936, the top tier reflecting a landmark, still widely cited scholarly lecture by a major philologist that turned Beowulf scholarship toward treating the poem as literature. Its limit is that it is now nearly ninety years old, and later Anglo-Saxon scholarship has developed well beyond its specific readings. NotesJ. R. R. Tolkien's influential scholarly lecture on Beowulf as literature, Proceedings of the British Academy, 1936.
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AuthorJ. R. R. Tolkien
PublisherProceedings of the British Academy
Publication Year1936
Source Typelecture
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This source names Anglo-Saxons directly: "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, J.R.R."
Source Beowulf: The Monsters and the CriticsJ. R. R. Tolkien
This source names Saxons directly: "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, J.R.R."
Source Beowulf: The Monsters and the CriticsJ. R. R. Tolkien
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