Tom Shippey holds the Alter J. Ong S.J. Chair of Humanities at Saint Louis University. He has published repeatedly on Beowulf and Old English peotry generally. His colleague Professor Andreas Haarder published the groundbreaking study Beowulf: the Appeal of a Poem (1975).

'The array of commentary presented in this volume provides an interesting conspectus of writings on Beowulf' - Fred C. Robinson, Yale University

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, ABBREVIATIONS, EDITORIAL PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, APPENDIX A: Key to references to Thorkelin’s edition, APPENDIX B: A note on line numbers, Bibliography, Index

Tom Shippey holds the Alter J. Ong S.J. Chair of Humanities at Saint Louis University. He has published repeatedly on Beowulf and Old English peotry generally. His colleague Professor Andreas Haarder published the groundbreaking study Beowulf: the Appeal of a Poem (1975).

'The array of commentary presented in this volume provides an interesting conspectus of writings on Beowulf' - Fred C. Robinson, Yale University

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, ABBREVIATIONS, EDITORIAL PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, APPENDIX A: Key to references to Thorkelin’s edition, APPENDIX B: A note on line numbers, Bibliography, Index

Tom Shippey holds the Alter J. Ong S.J. Chair of Humanities at Saint Louis University. He has published repeatedly on Beowulf and Old English peotry generally. His colleague Professor Andreas Haarder published the groundbreaking study Beowulf: the Appeal of a Poem (1975).

'The array of commentary presented in this volume provides an interesting conspectus of writings on Beowulf' - Fred C. Robinson, Yale University

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, ABBREVIATIONS, EDITORIAL PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, APPENDIX A: Key to references to Thorkelin’s edition, APPENDIX B: A note on line numbers, Bibliography, Index