Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Critical Commentary And Bibliography On Beowulf There are many views on the complex poems of Anglo-Saxon literature. Beowulf is our only native epic, but that is not our reason for studying it. For centuries it was forgotten, and even when it was published and studied in the nineteenth century it was considered the product of a barbarous age at best. Critical opinion has raised the reputation of Beowulf and other Old English poems a great deal in our time. Anglo-Saxons of the time of the Beowulf-poet were a sophisticated people who had developed a complex literature wh...
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