A Critical Companion to 'Beowulf'

'Beowulf' is the best known and most closely studied literary work surviving from Anglo-Saxon England, and the modern reader is faced with a bewildering number and variety of interpretations about such basic matters as the date, provenance, and significance of the poem. 'A Critical Companion to Beowulf' addresses these and other issues, reviewing and synthesising previous scholarship, as well as offering fresh perspectives.