Beowulf: An Edition

Bruce Mitchell, Fred C. Robinson

Wiley, Nov 10, 1998 - Literary Criticism - 344 pages

This magnificent new edition, which includes relevant shorter texts and key illustrations, is designed specifically to help those who, while already enjoying some acquaintance with Old English, come to Beowulf for the first time.

About the author

Bruce Mitchell is Fellow Emeritus at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. His many publications include An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England (Blackwell, 1994).

Fred C. Robinson is Douglas Tracy Smith Emeritus Professor of English at Yale University. His books include The Tomb of Beowulf, and Other Essays on Old English (Blackwell, 1993).
The sixth edition of Mitchell and Robinson's A Guide to Old English was published by Blackwell in 2001.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Beowulf: An Edition
• Editors: Bruce Mitchell, Fred C. Robinson
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Wiley, 1998
• ISBN: 0631172254, 9780631172253
• Length: 344 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh