This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body of scholarship on Beowulf, including English translations from German, Danish, Latin and Spanish.

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).

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