Chadwick, H. M. The Heroic Age. 1912.
Reprint. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1974. This scholarly work of long standing remains one of the best studies of the early Germanic culture reflected in Beowulf.
Fry, Donald K. Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg: A Bibliography. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1969. This is the most complete bibliography of Beowulf scholarship prior to the date of its publication.
Irving, Edward B., Jr. Introduction to "Beowulf." Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969. This work in the "Landmarks in Literature" series provides both general and more specialized discussions of the poem.
Tolkien, J. R. R. "Beowulf. The Monster and the Critics." In An Anthology of.....
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