Beowulf
By: edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's guides
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780791094327
Subjects: Beowulf; Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-105) and index.
Table of contents: title: J.R.R. Tolkein on poetic structure; title: Joan Blomfield on style; title: Stanley B. Greenfield on the epic quality; title: Edward B. Irving, Jr. on negative definitions; title: T.A. Shippey on symbols in the world of the poem; title: James W. Earl on the gold hoard; title: David Williams on Cain's progeny; title: Linda Georgianna on Beowulf's speech before the dragon fight; title: Susanne Weil on free will; title: Paul Dean on history and the passage of time; title: Thomas A. Prendergast on memory and the idolatrous pleasures of heroic poetry.