Beowulf and the Critics
J.R.R. Tolkien
Edited by Michael D.C. Drout
2002 First Edition
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Tempe, Arizona
ISBN-10: 0866982906
ISBN-13: 9780866982900
Hardcover in dust-jacket
xx, 468 pp.
Not illustrated
Tolkien Collector Ref.: Issue no. 26, p. 6
Notes
Volume 248 in the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.
Beowulf and the Critics was written in the 1930s and was probably delivered as a series of lectures to undergraduates. Tolkien’s highly influential lecture, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, was a redaction of this work. This edition of Tolkien’s lecture series includes both versions of the text together with detailed explanatory notes.
Also included are two versions of the poem Iumonna Gold Galdre Bewunden (previously published in 1923 and 1937 respectively) along with an intermediate version (printed twice, the first time without the final stanza).
Three printings issued.
With the 2nd or 3rd Printing a grey stripe across the bottom right corner of the dust-jacket was added stating “Winner of the 2003 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies“.
RRP: $38.00.