| Description |
xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Note |
"NDP27." |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
The Christian coloring in the Beowulf / F.A. Blackburn -- The heroic age, an excerpt / H. Munro Chadwick -- The ideal of kingship in Beowulf / Levin L. Schücking -- Beowulf: the monsters and the critics / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The religious principle in Beowulf / Marie Padgett Hamilton -- Beowulf / Kemp Malone -- Beowulf and Christian allegory: an interpretation of Unferth / Morton W. Bloomfield -- The doctrine of charity in mediaeval literary gardens: a topical approach through symbolism and allegory / D.W. Robertson, Jr. -- The oral-formulaic character of Anglo-Saxon narrative poetry / Francis p. Magoun, Jr. -- Beowulf and the Liturgy / Allen Cabaniss -- Beowulf's three great fights / H.L. Rogers -- Good and evil: light and darkness: joy and sorrow in Beowulf / Herbert G. Wright -- Sapientia et fortitudo as the controlling theme of Beowulf / R.E. Kaske -- Sutton Hoo and Beowulf / C.L. Wrenn -- Beowulf -an allegory of salvation? / M.B. McNamee -- The Beowulf poet / Paull F. Baum -- Patristics and Old English literature: notes on some poems / Morton W. Bloomfield -- The Christian perspective in Beowulf / Margaret E. Goldsmith. |
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Beowulf.
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Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism.
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Monsters in literature.
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Dragons in literature.
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Heroes in literature.
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