(New Yorker) Joan Acocella: Slaying Monsters–Tolkien’s “Beowulf”
‘Tolkien may have put away his translation of “Beowulf,” but about a decade later he published a paper that many people regard as not just the finest essay on the poem but one of the finest essays on English literature. … Continue reading (New Yorker) Joan Acocella: Slaying Monsters–Tolkien’s “Beowulf”
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(New Yorker) Joan Acocella: Slaying Monsters–Tolkien’s “Beowulf”
‘Tolkien may have put away his translation of “Beowulf,” but about a decade later he published a paper that many people regard as not just the finest essay on the poem but one of the finest essays on English literature. … Continue reading (New Yorker) Joan Acocella: Slaying Monsters–Tolkien’s “Beowulf”